by Jane Gardam · Abacus Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349114071
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«Black Faces, White Faces» is a collection of short stories by Jane Gardam, published by Abacus Books in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Interlinked stories portraying tourist Jamaica as a stage for human frailties: a woman senses something sinister beneath the sun, an English lawyer lets himself be carried away by an affair while his wife sinks in England and, by the pool, desires, farce and racial tension surface.
Winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial and David Higham prizes in 1975; the work was originally published that same year.
For readers of literary fiction and short stories, interested in tourist Jamaica and in character-driven tales with humour and racial tension.
Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
