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The Polished Hoe

by Austin Clarke
Robin Miles
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Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality. ". brilliantly written dialogue, a rich, dancing patois that fills out the dimensions of the island's painful history and its complex caste system."-Publishers Weekly
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Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9781456111199
  • File size: 543670 KB
  • Release date: September 16, 2009
  • Duration: 18:52:38

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781456111199
  • File size: 544692 KB
  • Release date: September 16, 2009
  • Duration: 18:52:38
  • Number of parts: 16
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Fiction Literature

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English

Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality. ". brilliantly written dialogue, a rich, dancing patois that fills out the dimensions of the island's painful history and its complex caste system."-Publishers Weekly
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Fiction Literature