Moses Ascending
  • Published: 31 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918396
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Moses Ascending

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1 Dec 2020
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31 Mar 2008
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An uproarious exploration of Carribean immigrant experience from one of the great writers of the twentieth century

Sam Selvon’s Moses Ascending depicts West Indian Immigration in England. Moses, a Trinidadian who has been in England for some years now represents immigrants who come from all corners of the world to seek a better life. Like many immigrants he is hard-working. After years of living in a dingy basement he saves up enough money to buy a house. Moses calls this his dream house in the beginning of the book but later on he realizes that the house is a piece of garbage.
  • Published: 31 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918396
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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About the author

Sam Selvon

Sam Selvon was born in San Fernando (Trinidad) in 1923 and worked in his homeland as a wireless operator and reporter. In 1950 he left Trinidad for the UK, where he established himself as a writer with A Brighter Sun (1952). Many other books followed, including his best-known novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), and its two sequels, Moses Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983). He moved to Canada in the late 1970s and died in 1994.

Also by Sam Selvon

Ways of Sunlight
Calypso in London
The Housing Lark
The Lonely Londoners
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