Colonial Cream

About the Book

In this new collection of stories Williams again breaks the rules and stretches the limits of short fiction. Two stories are as long as novellas; others are ‘short’ but densely mystifying. The title story returns to a Caribbean past that has almost faded, but modern themes – lesbian love, sexuality, individual consciousness, memory, arriving in America, loneliness in hybrid cities – are explored with sharp-eyed, inventive prose. His characters cross borders into places that on the surface resemble Jamaica or New York but could be anywhere. Colonial Cream is a fine example of contemporary Caribbean writing.

About the Author

N.D. Williams grew up in Guyana, studied at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and now lives in New York. His short stories have been published in several anthologies. His first novel, “Ikael Torass”, won the 1976 Casa de las Americas prize for fiction. Cover painting: “Father and Child” by Brian Chan