The Scent of the Past: Stories and Remembrances

Encapsulating life in the Caribbean in the last decades of the 20th century, these pieces, collected from the highly popular weekly column “In Our Time,” are carefully infused with a poet’s delight in the power of language and a craftsman’s regard for meticulous structure. Deliberately blurring the lines between fiction and reality, these stories form an unrivalled portrait of a rapidly changing Caribbean society. Invoking memories to resurrect the people and places the author has known or loved, this is a seminal work from a mentor to a whole generation of West Indian authors.