{"product_id":"natives-of-my-person","title":"Natives of My Person","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNatives of My Person\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Lamming\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780385552202\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOutsider Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e496\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Lamming--one of the Caribbean's most powerful literary voices--reimagines the age of European exploration to expose the deep scars of conquest in this novel, which Ngũgĩ wa Thiong''o, perennial contender for the Nobel Prize, calls \"one of the great political novels in modern 'colonial' literature.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA nameless Commandant sets sail under imperial orders--somewhere between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries--to locate the fabled island of San Cristobal, a place shrouded in myth and promise. But this is no ordinary voyage. As the expedition unfolds, it becomes a mirror of the imperial mind--ambitious, fractured, haunted by its own contradictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith poetic intensity and philosophical depth, \u003ci\u003eNatives of My Person\u003c\/i\u003e journeys far beyond the seas it charts. Through shifting perspectives and a richly layered narrative, Lamming unearths the personal and political dimensions of empire--its delusions, its violence, and the haunting legacy it leaves behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Outsider Editions","offers":[{"title":"Natives of My Person | George Lamming | Paperback | 9780385552202 | New | Fiction 1733516","offer_id":49468566667416,"sku":"1733516","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61D5s_P_dvL.jpg?v=1784044919","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/natives-of-my-person","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}