Trinidad Noir: The Classics: The Classics

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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. This volume showcases some of the best writing from Trinidad & Tobago's outstanding literary history. The collection starts with pre-Independence writing - dating all the way back to 1927 - and continues through the twentieth century and up to contemporary writers of recent years. The diversity of styles and cultures captured in Trinidad Noir: The Classics is a fascinating reflection of Trinidad.

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Trinidad Noir: The Classics asks readers to reconsider the postcolonial condition in the forty-five years after independence.
--SX Salon

There can be little doubt...that this represents a good range of literary shapshots of Trinidad, giving clues to its distinct character.
--Crime Review

Each story is magnetic.
--New York Journal of Books

A dazzling sample of the talent that makes Trinidad and Tobago so unique...The book is a display of wide-ranging styles and great talents, giving a sense of the remarkable diversity of such a small island.
--Pif Magazine

The first installment of Trinidad Noir (2008) revealed a dark, incessant heart beating beneath the public and private carapaces of contemporary T&T. This second offering delivers nineteen stories from a cadre of writers, the majority of whom emerged as established voices in the republic's march towards Independence...These stories sing of a fractured, fascinating land.
--Caribbean Beat Magazine

There is enough cynicism, fatalism, and ambiguity in most of these stories to satisfy the most dedicated of noir aficionados; if some of them lack hard-boiled cynical characters, they make up for it in bleak settings, and vice versa. Most if not all of the stories deal either directly or indirectly with the legacies of slavery, indenture, and colonialism.
--The Caribbean Writer

Every story speaks to you...Trinidad Noir is an inimitable work of art, a classical expose of the island's literary giants. For all its color it never falls short on its singular statement that the Caribbean people remain a distinctively creative force, a force that has ensured their survival.
--Kaieteur News (Guyana)

Author Bio

Earl Lovelace is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He recently received the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. He is the coeditor of Trinidad Noir: The Classics.

Robert Antoni is equal parts Trinbagonian, Bahamian, and US citizen. He is the author of five novels, most recently As Flies to Whatless Boys. He is the recipient of a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. He is the coeditor of Trinidad Noir: The Classics.