The Lonely Londoners
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Author | Sam Selvon |
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Cover artist | John Clemeson |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Novel |
Publisher | Alan Wingate |
Released | 1956 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 142 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 0-582-64264-7 |
The Lonely Londoners is a 1956 novel by British Caribbean author Sam Selvon detailing the life of West Indians in post World War II England. The novel focuses on several aspects of the British-West Indian experience, focusing especially on the prominent contemporary racial issues, and relationships between the periphery and metropole, that is, between colonies and the "mother country."
It was created by Sam Selvon