The lost child - caryl phillips

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A gripping and inventive reimagining of Wuthering Heights , by award-winning author Caryl Phillips In the tradition of Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea and J.

Coetzees Foe , Caryl Phillips revisits Emily Brontës masterpiece Wuthering Heights as a lyrical tale of orphans and outcasts, absence and hope.

A sweeping novel spanning generations, The Lost Child tells the story of young Heathcliffs life before Mr.

Earnshaw brought him home to his family; the Brontë sisters and their wayward brother, Branwell; Monica, whose father forces her to choose between her family and the foreigner she loves; and a boys disappearance into the wildness of the moors and the brother he leaves behind.

Phillips deftly spins these disparate lives--bound by the past and struggling to liberate themselves from it--into a stunning literary work.

Phillips has been called in a league with Toni Morrison and V.

Naipaul (Donna Seaman, Booklist ), and his work is charged with the complexities of migration, alienation, and displacement.

Haunting and heartbreaking, The Lost Child transforms a classic into a profound story that is singularly its own.