Dog-Heart
Dog-Heart Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize Caribbean Award 2011.Dog-Heart is a novel about the well-meaning attempt of a middle-class single mother to transform the life of a boy from the ghetto who…
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Dog-Heart
Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize Caribbean Award 2011.Dog-Heart is a novel about the well-meaning attempt of a middle-class single mother to transform the life of a boy from the ghetto who she meets on the street. They speak in the two languages of Jamaica that sometimes overlap, sometimes display their different origins and world views. Set in present-day, urban Jamaica, Dog-Heart tells the story from two alternating points of view - those of the woman and the boy.
"Diana McCaulay's debut novel Dog-Heart is a harsh and poignant tableau ... Whilst engaging the reader in a tense and absorbing narrative, the novel deals seriously with issues of race and class, the complexity of relationships between people of very different backgrounds, and the difficulties faced by individuals seeking to bring about social change by their own actions. exploring the