The white woman on the green bicycle

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The white woman on the green bicycle

Sabine Harwood comes to Trinidad reluctantly as a naive newlywed with her husband George. They never intended to stay but George falls in love with the place. Their arrival coincides with the launch of the PNM, the new Trinidadian national party. The novel opens with a violent police beating. It is 2006 - George and Sabine are in their seventies and out of love, and Trinidad is beset by gang violence and teeters on the edge of dictatorship. The beating fuels Sabine's loathing of Trinidad and inspires George to set about winning back her affections. But he makes a discovery about a secret at the heart of their relationship - a discovery that leads him to try to make amends, with tragic consequences. Time shifts to the couple's arrival in 1956, when George and Sabine are young, beautiful and crazy in love, and Trinidad is an idyllic expat paradise, and the narrative traces the events that have shaped the couple's ultimate destiny and contemporary Trinidad.

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English
Pages
440

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Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Published in
London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.92
Library of Congress
PR6118.O37 W45 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
440 pages
Number of pages
440

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL32154160M
ISBN 10
1847395228
ISBN 13
9781847395221
OCLC/WorldCat
551427772

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19948144W

Work Description

Sabine struggles to adapt to life in postcolonial Trinidad after her husband George takes a job assignment there, especially as racial and political tensions rise and the couple's secrets and lies cause them to drift apart.

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