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Sweet Like Saltwater
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"Deonandan's prose is quirky and engaging... at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive in probing of the denials and adaptive self-oppressions that flourish under empire." -The Globe and Mail
"An endless fountain of fertile imagination." -Pagitica Magazine
"Each short story in this volume is exquisitely crafted, as if the writer creates each line like a work of art." -India Currents Magazine
"Like other writers of South Asian background such as Michael Ondaatje, Cyril Dabydeen, Sasenarine Persaud, and Zulfikar Ghose, Deonandan helps readers to understand the enormous cultural diversity of our hemisphere." -Americas Magazine
From the back of the book: Sweet Like Saltwater marks a brilliant, highly original fictional debut. These stories ...about a fanatical cricket fan in rural colonial Guyana, an immigrant girl on the run on a Canadian backroad, a terrifying aquatic encounter in a faraway planetary colony of the future, a meeting of former neighbours on the banks of the Hudson... probe with acuity and a wry sense of humour the very modern condition of human exile and the search for freedom and belonging.
- Winner of the 2000 Guyana Prize for Best First Book
- Shortlisted for the 2000 Guyana Prize for Literature
- Contains a story that won the 1995 Canadian Author's Association National Student Literary Competition
- Contains two stories that have won Hart House Literary Prizes (1995, 1996)
- Contains a story that was shortlisted for the 1997 Paragraph Magazine Literary Competition
- Contains a story that was shortlisted for the 1987 Permanent Trust Literary Competition
- Included in Asian studies courses at Cornell and Columbia universities
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