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title: "In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics)"
brand: "george lamming (author)"
price: "€ 41.52"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 13
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# In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics)

**Brand:** george lamming (author)
**Price:** € 41.52
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics) by george lamming (author)
- **How much does it cost?** € 41.52 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    A good book about Caribbean life in the early to mid 20th century
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2019*

I had read that George Lamming's In The Castle of My Skin was a classic of Caribbean literature, so I bought the Kindle version to see for myself. It's not a novel that one would read for entertainment, but rather to learn something about a part of the world that few Americans know much about. The novel describes life in the 1930s and 1940s in colonial Barbados. I could not interpret many of the metaphors the author used, and the motives behind some events are hard to understand. Nevertheless, the novel succeeded in giving at least one reader (myself) a glimpse into a different society and into the frustrations that the Euro-American world order causes to people who have no say in it.

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    An Educating Read
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2019*

I had to read this book for a class, so while I would have put it down had I been reading it on my own, I ended up pushing through. And I actually kind of liked it. It was slow and dense, but I found myself wanting to know what would happen next and I enjoyed some of the characters. It was certainly nice to experience a novel outside my normal genres and I definitely learned more about the colonialism and culture of Barbados.

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    Real life was like this...
  

*by A***G on Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2015*

Anyone who wishes to gain a solid understanding of Caribbean culture should read this book, especially those who would not be familiar with the old-time way of life depicted in the story. I did find that at first I wasn't clear on how the book was coming across and wasn't until almost half-way that I started catching on. The way the book is written does paint a very vivid picture of the lives of two sets of people: an old couple and some young boys.

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