A Quality of Violence

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A Quality of Violence

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Andrew Salkey
Salkey’s first novel, A Quality of Violence (1959), is set in a remote area of Jamaica about 1900, when a prolonged drought leads Christians to turn toward the older, “darker” ways of voodoo and obeah. Like many of his other books, it is narrated in a distinctive Jamaican…
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Salkey’s first novel, A Quality of Violence (1959), is set in a remote area of Jamaica about 1900, when a prolonged drought leads Christians to turn toward the older, “darker” ways of voodoo and obeah. Like many of his other books, it is narrated in a distinctive Jamaican…
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