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Love After Love

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Love After Love

Auteur(s): Ingrid Persaud
Narrateur(s): Ingrid Persaud
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“A stellar debut ... about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love, losing it and finding it again just when we need it most.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Winner of The Costa Book Award • “A wonder ... [This book] teems with real, Trinidadian life.” (Claire Adam, award-winning author of Golden Child)

Semi-Finalist for The OCM Bocas Prize • One of the Best Books of the Summer: Time • The Guardian • Goop • Women’s Day • LitHub

After Betty Ramdin’s husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her son, Solo. Over time, the three become a family, loving each other deeply and depending upon one another. Then, one fateful night, Solo overhears Betty confiding in Mr. Chetan and learns a secret that plunges him into torment.

Solo flees Trinidad for New York to carve out a lonely existence as an undocumented immigrant, and Mr. Chetan remains the singular thread holding mother and son together. But soon, Mr. Chetan’s own burdensome secret is revealed, with heartbreaking consequences. Love After Love interrogates love and family in all its myriad meanings and forms, asking how we might exchange an illusory love for one that is truly fulfilling.

In vibrant, addictive Trinidadian prose, Love After Love questions who and how we love, the obligations of family, and the consequences of choices made in desperation.

©2020 Ingrid Persaud (P)2020 Random House Audio Fiction Fiction de genre Littérature et fiction

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"Named after one of the Caribbean's most famous poems, Love After Love is a perfect storm of a book, written in the wake of the groundbreaking Jason Jones LGBT win in 2018. If you want to understand the cultural complexities of a contemporary Caribbean island life, read this novel. Persaud deftly weaves together harsh realities of an island state still struggling with a brutal past. But while this book is dark, it’s funny too; it crackles with the language and wordplay that is the everyday picong spoken on the island. This is a formidable debut by an emerging writer who understands her subject, the island of Trinidad, with all its contrariness, a place where it is still, for some, a hard place to openly love another.” (Monique Roffey, award-winning author of Archipelago and The White Woman on the Green Bicycle)

“Restless, heartbreaking, and intensely spellbinding, Love After Love will stay with you long after the last page.” (André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name)

“Love After Love is gift after gift. An unforgettable symphony of love and loss, heartache and guilt, and the secrets and lies that pull us together, and tear us apart. Dazzlingly told in the most electrifying prose you will read all year.” (Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf)

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First I say thank you to Persaud for the story and narration. Besides the telling of a trini story by an ACTUAL trini (oral representation matters), the themes in Persaud’s book are so real, I had to pause many times feeling similar triggers from my own upbringing. Persaud had me furious with characters in one minute and empathizing with them the next. I was moved by how authentic it was in its beauty and in its ugliness of how life can be (for some) in T&T, even now.

a beautiful, ugly glimpse into a Trini family

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Absolutely loved this read. As a Trini, it is refreshing to hear our stories told in our dialect. Ingrid Persaud brings the sights, smells and sounds of home to life in this tale about love's complicated and cyclical nature, the sting of betrayal and the power of forgiveness. A gripping, impactful read.

Excellent

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The characters were so relatable I felt like I was reading bout my family and I. The story is really touching , love can can hurt real bad but for some reason you still want it and need it no matter how many times you been hurt. The author knew what she what was doing when she wrote this book.

Out standing storytelling

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Enjoyed the perspective from the 3 main characters and the west Indian style of saying things. Though I found the swearing to be a bit much, I enjoyed the honesty of the storyline and appreciated the perspective of those voices that are underrepresented. An open mind is needed for this book as those who consider themselves Christian right or very religious may be put off though I do think they would probably need to read this more than anyone else.

Real and Raw

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