The Dragon Can'T Dance Av Earl Lovelace

<p><b>‘A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.’ C. L. R. James</b><br><b><br>‘First-class talent.’ </b><i><b>The Voice</b></i><br><br>Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill – poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn ­­– is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples’ hopes, and the feeling that ‘all o’ we is one’?<br><br>With an unforgettable cast of characters, <i>The Dragon Can’t Dance </i>is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.</p>