Literature. Our selection of 3 works that explore filiation at the heart

Liberty is a Faraway Island by Eleanor Shearer

Freedom is a distant island
by Eleanor Shearer
Ed. Charleston, 400 p. ; €22.90.

August 1834, in the British Caribbean. While slavery has just been abolished, Rachel, who has lived on the same sugar cane plantation since her birth, must work for six more years before being freed by her owner. But, firmly determined to find her five children who were taken from her, she decides to run away. From the island of Barbados to that of Trinidad via the forests of British Guiana, Rachel, full of hope and determination, begins a long journey across land and sea to find her family. Granddaughter of Caribbean immigrants who arrived in the United Kingdom, Eleanor Shearer was inspired by true stories of maroons (escaped slaves) and freedmen for her first novel, exotic and endearing.

Manon Kolb

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