An Island Is a World

Fiction. Caribbean Studies. A novel of a personal and intellectual quest in postwar Trinidad. In the post-war Caribbean colony, as an earlier generation thinks of returning to India, Foster, a young man, goes to England and his brother Rufus leaves for the United States, each in search of himself and his world. Combining his characteristic humour with a vivid sense of place, Selvon's AN ISLAND IS A WORLD tells a moving story of personal and intellectual quest in our time. With an introduction by Kenneth Ramchand.