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Years after her son was abducted, a mother opens the door to a young man in this "unique and very moving novel" (Booklist). Beverley Cottrell had a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. It was all stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son, Malakay, was kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay was never found. Beverley's marriage dissolved, and her husband left England for the United States with a new wife. Moving from the leafy suburbs to the inner city to reside in a west London housing project, Beverley cocooned herself in grief, growing more isolated with each passing year. After two decades she has given up any hope of finding closure, and teaches children at the local community center, bright kids thrown on society's scrap heap. Then a young man starts appearing wherever she goes. Beverley is convinced that he's stalking her. One dark evening he gets past her security door and calls through her letterbox. He tells her not to be scared. He says that he is Malakay, her son . . . The Gospel According to Cane is an emotional, suspenseful novel--"part homecoming narrative in the vein of Toni Morrison's Beloved and part haunting tale of loss similar to Ernest Gaines's In My Father's House [that] will appeal to all lovers of literary fiction" (Library Journal). "As Bev confesses in her journals to events that make her appear less than the fragile idealist she first appeared, Newland's tale gathers pace and tension. Violence becomes a real possibility. Happy ending or sad? Newland delivers a bit of both in this complex, cathartic portrait of an intelligent, if not always sensible woman, who refuses any longer to be defined by loss." --Toronto Star "A thrilling read, full of psychological tension and drama." --Yvette Edwards, author of The Mother

About the Author :
Courttia Newland's first novel, The Scholar, was published in 1997. Further critically acclaimed work includes Society Within (1999), Snakeskin (2002), The Dying Wish (2006), Music for the Off-Key (2006), and A Book of Blues (2011). He is coeditor of IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000) and has short stories featured in many anthologies. He was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, the Alfred Fagon Award, and the Frank O'Connor Award. His latest anthology, coedited with Monique Roffey, is Tell Tales 4: The Global Village.

Review :
Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction A Publishers Weekly "Notable African-American Title" "A mother's love is unbreakable, as Frank O'Connor Award-nominee Newland demonstrates in his latest novel . . . The storytelling is as captivating as the story itself. Newland, a Jamaican-born British writer, seamlessly integrates the joy, fear, uncertainty, and sadness . . . Newland's prose is beautiful." --Library Journal "The emotional tension is sometimes almost unbearable as a mother and son attempt to build a relationship out of their shared pain." --Booklist "The characters are finely drawn with realistic ambiguity and genuinely exhibit the durability of grief and pain." --Publishers Weekly "Newland delivers an intense portrait of mental conflict against a gritty inner-city background. The book we are reading is Beverley Cottrell's journal . . . This 'journal of my pain, ' becomes a spiral of cathartic violence during which Newland deftly keeps the reader guessing." --Kirkus Reviews "What could be a simple, emotive story of grief and redemption becomes, in Newland's hands, something more complex . . . The Gospel According to Cane is a page-turner, merging serious literary fiction with social commentary. Those interested in a fresh, vibrant take on contemporary London life should add it to their shelves." --Switchback "Throughout The Gospel According to Cane, Mr. Newland takes on . . . the meaning of family and the risks associated with helping those in distress . . . With realism and without sanctimony, Mr. Newland successfully engages some of the most difficult questions we will ever face." --New York Journal of Books


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781617751509
  • Publisher: Akashic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1617751502
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 224


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