Longest memory, paperback/fred d'aguiar

This debut novel from the Guyana-born poet won both the Whitbread and David Higham First Novel Awards.

Set on a Virginian plantation in the nineteenth century, it is the story of a young slave who breaks all the rules.

Gripping.

Lyric optimism from rottenness and violence: a brilliant - and beautiful - achievement Ruth Padel, >Independent on Sunday.