Augustown by Kei Miller

April 3, 2022 Novels

Download Augustown by Kei Miller PDF novel free. The “Augustown: A Novel” follows one family’s struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.

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“Augustown” brings an interesting perspective to a group which is unknown to the general reading public. Kei Miller is the author of this fantastic novel. Kei is the author of two previous novels, several poetry collections, and Fear of Stones and Other Stories, which was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, he won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection for The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. His “Augustown” provides an in-depth look at what. Life was like in August Town in the early 19th century.

This is not another story about superstitious island people and their primitive beliefs. This is a story about people as real as you are, and as real as I once was before I became a bodiless thing floating up here in the sky. To really understand one’s sense of self, Mr. Miller suggests, you need to have something to believe in. And uncovering what that “something” is challenging when the people are subjugated, disrespected, and unempowered. Otherwise, the only way to “fly away to Zion” is by dying, and indeed, our narrator (whose identity is only unveiled at the end), has had to suffer that fate. In short, this is a stunning book, picking up the Kingstown patois and combining it with a lyrical poetry.