The Lonely Londoners
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Author: Sam Selvon
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.,,In the hopeful aftermath of war they flocked to the Mother Country — West Indians in search of a prosperous future in the “glitter-city.”,,Instead, they have to face the harsh realities of living hand to mouth, of racism, of bone-chilling weather and b….Read More
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