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Kofi, a Jamaican reggae musician, and Keisha, a social researcher from South Carolina, meet at a club where Kofi's band is playing on the tail end of a United States tour. A spark ignites between them and Kofi convinces Keisha to take a chance and follow him to Jamaica. Yet the Jamaica that Dawes writes about is thick with the politics of class and identity, full of characters with distinct agendas and needs - a world quite different from the stereotype of sea and sun. Keisha feels immediately like a stranger on this island, especially as Kofi succumbs to a bout of depression. "She's Gone" delves into the enigmatic challenge of two virtual strangers trying to negotiate differences of culture, nationality, class, and gender. If it is a love story, it is one marked by the harsh realities of human existence revealed in the songs of Bob Marley and the cool sensual intelligence of Milan Kundera.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Macmillan Caribbean Writers: She's Gone
• Author: Kwame Dawes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780230534988
• ISBN: 0230534988
• ID: 04040558
• Publisher: Macmillan Education
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2008

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