No telephone to heaven
The structure of No Telephone to Heaven combines naturalism and lyricism, and traverses space and time, dream and reality, myth and history, reflecting the fragmentation of the protagonist, who nonetheless seeks wholeness and connection. In this deeply poetic novel there exist several levels: the world Clare encounters, and a world of which she only gradually becomes aware a world of extreme poverty, the real Jamaica, not the Jamaica of the middle class, not the Jamaica of the tourist. And Jamaica almost a character in the book is described in terms of extraordinary beauty, coexisting with deep human tragedy
Print Book, English, 1989, ©1987
1st Vintage International ed
Vintage Books, New York, 1989, ©1987