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Description

Like the acclaimed film of the same title, this lyrical, lilting, densely textured novel is based on the exploits of the legendary Jamaican folk hero and reggae star Rhygin. With passion and precision, Michael Thelwell recounts Rhygin’s journey from a morally coherent rural universe to the... read more

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First Sentence

"Yoh! Ivan... Ivanhoe yoh!" Without pausing in her work in the open kitchen, Miss 'Mando listened to the echoes of her whoop bouncing back and forth against the hillsides and away down the valley, growing fainter as they went.

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  1. Michael Thelwell (Author)
 

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