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Salt A Novel Earl Lovelace 9780892552351 Books Reviews

This is soul on ice for Jamaicans. A long wail of self-pity and victimhood. The seller sent me a fine copy, but any price is too high for this dismal, deservedly obscure work.
This book certainly gives food for thought. I loved the writing style and the clever way the author works fact into fiction. Am certainly going to purchase more from Earl Lovelace.
I use Earl Lovelace's novel "Salt" in a course I teach on the African Diaspora at UC-Santa Cruz. Several years after taking this course, former students write me that this is one of the books that has changed their lives. The book is ostensibly about slavery and its aftermath in postcolonial Trinidad. However, it is one of those novels that quickly forces the reader to look in the mirror and ask some fundamental questions including "What is my relationship to slavery, colonialism, and freedom?" Reminiscent of August Wilson "Is it possible to live a life of dignity by ignoring the past?"

Salt is also outstanding in its efforts to explore the complex relations between peoples of African and Asian descent in Trinidad and the Western Hemisphere. Lovelace wants the reader to have a clear sense that the peoples of Indian Diaspora have been an integral part of the Caribbean. The character Sonan's remarkable grandfather Moon Lochan was the first person in his Indian family to run for elected office against a majority African political party. (During colonialism, Trinidadians were "allowed" to pick a few elected officials to represent them in the colonial council. However, the governor had veto power over all decisions and most "representatives" in the council were actually hand-picked by the British.) Moon and his wife Dularie build the family business over the next several decades after the family had arrived as indentured laborers sometime in the 19th century. (Lovelace is deliciously vague on these details.)

There are many more dimensions to this wonderful novel. The reader will find one of the most astute considerations of male/female relationships in recent literary history. Lovelace is clear true emancipation will not occur unless the relationships between men and women become fully equal. All and all, a brilliant novel of the African Diaspora.
I read this book for my class, and I gotta say! I actually really enjoyed it. There is no real speaker in the book, so if that confuses you then you shouldn't read it. I personally like characters so I followed the book pretty easily as it shifted from a lot of different points of view. The stories made it seem like the reader got an inside look on how people function on the island and brings up a lot of metaphors for the issues that the locals face. It has a bunch of relationship issues and political and economical and even personal internal issues with each character. I loved reading this book because you gain so much about how some people work mentally and you get an insights on how people may take things a certain way. You'll like some characters more than others and have to give each person a face and hear them speak in your head. It's a whole movie that'll take you on a trip to a different place. Take what you can with a grain of Salt.
This is a most amazing novel about the Trinidadian and their culture. The main theme of the novel is about social, political and economic situations of the Caribbean aftermath of slavery and colonialism. The author of this book is a famous Caribbean writer, Earl Lovelace. His writing style is clear, honest and the characters are vivid. The book has 13 chapters. The first 11 characters deal with purely black Trinidadian whose ancestors came as slaves from Africa through the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. The rest of the chapters talks about an Indian man named Moon and his family who came to the Caribbean through the indentured labor system. I think the message of the book is that those people whose parents went through slavery and then colonialism are still struggling to unshackle and free themselves from the negative lingering effects of those brutal systems. There is also comparison between Trinidadian and Mr. Moon’s family. The relationship between black men and women become loose and sometimes uncertain. On the other hand, when he writes about Indians in the Caribbean, they easily become successful in business, education, arts, and other aspects of their lives. The reason Earl does this in his writing is to show us that slavery and had left negative marks in the lives of the future generation while Indians who were not enslaved became more successful because they were not under the system of slavery. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn about the Caribbean people and their culture!
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