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Moses Migrating by Sam Selvon

june_englit_phd's review

5.0

This is book 3 of Selvon's immigrant "Trilogy", following the journey of Moses Aloetta from the loneliness of London back to his home country, Trinidad. Moses doesn't make this journey unaccompanied, however - Bob and Jeannie want to see the Carnival and so organise things so that they can join him. They are later joined by Galahad and Brenda - much to Moses's chagrin - and just when Moses tries to re-establish links with his Tanty Flora and rekindle family ties, he also gets bothered by Lennart, the 'Guardian' (Trinidadian version) journalist. It's a short novel that can be read in a couple of hours, and is an amalgam of comedy and poignancy as Moses endeavours to "spread the gospel" of "Brit'n's" greatness to the Caribbean population through very symbolic means.

Really enjoyed this book; similarly to its predecessors there are very strong intertextual links to Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' (Part 3 of) and I am looking forward to writing about it in my next Uni essay.