A Day in the Country Ali al-Domaini first published in 1941

first published in 1941

Lives of Lilo is the story of Lilo – a blue-and-red seaside accessory – blown from its beach-holidaying family towards the open sea

Takes me back

to the damaged peers and tense situations of adult life

A Day in the Country Ali al-Domaini first published in 1941In these stories of Indian life in Trinidad in the 1940s and 50s, Ismith Khan brings to vivid life the morning smells of eggplant frying in coconut oil, and herrings baking in the embers of the earthen fireplace; childhoods such as Pooran's, who has to make his way between the poetic mythology of the pundit and the cold, rationalistic materialism of his science teacher, or 'Thiney Boney' who, newly arrived in Port of Spain from the country, has to