Anthony C. Winkler

• Feb-1989
• / General Fiction
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"You learn dat dis world don't love negar! And negar don't make for dis world!" Zachariah's mother warned him when he was still a boy. Yet, poor and abominably ugly, the Jamaican fisherman grasps lovingly for life, though the worst forces of natur...

• Jun-2007
• / Literary
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A novel of a Jamaican woman’s adventures, from an author with “a fine ear for patois and dialogue, and a love of language that makes bawdy jokes crackle” (The New Yorker).   “An acclaimed comic novelist in his native Jamaica, Winkler mak...

• Jun-2007
• / General Fiction
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This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World).   In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, b...

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
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“Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit” (Marlon James).   Being dead is most definitely an impediment to writing a book, under ordinary circumstances. But t...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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Tells the story of Josephine Hemp, a simple but devout Catholic housemaid who feels abused and abandoned by God. This book tells how in order to get revenge, she captures a consecrated host which, under the ancient Church doctrine of transubstantiati...

• Sep-2012
• / Historical
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God Carlos transports us to a voyage aboard the Santa Inez, a Spanish sailing vessel bound for the newly discovered West Indies with a fortune-seeking band of ragtag sailors. She is an unusual explorer for her day, carrying no provisions for the sett...

• May-2013
• / Historical
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The Family Mansion tells the story of Hartley Fudges, whose personal destiny unfolds against the backdrop of nineteenth-century British culture, a time when English society was based upon the strictest subordination and stratification of the classes....