London: New Literature (Publishing) Ltd.. 1961.
an inverted parable of the cruelty of colour prejudice
First edition. 209x135mm. pp. 196. Orange cloth, lettered in black. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight bowing to the boards and some creases and closed tears to the edges of the jacket and chipping to head and foot of spine of jacket. Overall a very good copy an extraordinary novel set among the Jamaican Maroons - a community of indigenous Caribbean Arawakan people who mixed with enslaved Africans who had broken free. It tells of a white boy born to a chief of the Maroons and the tensions that arise as a result. In his preface to this moving novel Tom Driberg describes it as "an inverted parable of the cruelty of colour prejudice". Namba Roy was a Maroon himself and worked in the Merchant Navy during WWII before becoming a painter, sculptor and writer. He died in 1961 at the age of only 51.
