While Gods Are Falling

While gods are falling
Lovelace, Earl
London : Collins, 1965
254 p. ; 21 cm.

Winner of the BP Independence Literary Award of 1965, this novel marks Lovelace’s emergence in a public way as a major voice in Caribbean literature. The action follows the then familiar passage of populations from rural to urban in its focus on a rural family settled in a Port of Spain tenement. The protagonist discovers the possibility of political agency by getting involved in a murder trial. The urban scene would provide Lovelace with material for some of his richest novels, notably The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979 – in the Carberry) and the much later, Commonwealth Prize winning, Salt.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.)
PR9272.9.L6 W4 1965

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