The narrator of The Intended is twelve when he leaves his village in rural Guyana to come to England. There he is abandoned into social care, but with determination seizes every opportunity to follow his aunts farewell advice but you must tek educationpass plenty exam. With a scholarship to Oxford, and an upperclass white fiance, he has unquestionably arrived, but at the cost of ignoring the other part of his aunts farewell you is we, remember you is we. First published almost fifteen years ago, The Intendeds portrayal of the instability of identity and relations between whites, AfricanCaribbeans and Asians in South London is as contemporary and pertinent as ever. As an Indian from Guyana, the narrator is seen as a Paki by the English, and as some mongrel hybrid by real Asians from India and Pakistan as sharing a common British Blackness whilst acutely conscious of the real cultural divisions between Africans and Indians back in Guyana."Passionate and honest... A vivid attempt to come to terms with the pain of immigrant experience" The ObserverDavid Dabydeen was born in Guyana. He has published six acclaimed novels and three collections of poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Binding: Paperback;246 pages; Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 338 g; Dimensions: 208 x 139 x 15

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