by Jamaica Kincaid · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099773818
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«Annie John» is Jamaica Kincaid's coming-of-age novel, published by Vintage in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Annie John recounts the childhood and adolescence of a girl on the island of Antigua. Annie adores her mother and grows up in a seemingly paradisiacal environment, but when she reaches puberty, their relationship becomes fraught. The young girl begins to rebel at school and question her world; amid discoveries and disappointments, she tries to define herself against her mother's figure.
The novel was originally published in 1985 and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction category.
For readers seeking contemporary coming-of-age classics with a female protagonist and a look at adolescence in the Caribbean.
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence Emerita at Harvard University.
