![]() ![]() Wifreda deliberately betrays Beatrice, who, humiliated, exiles herself to Canada. ![]() As Wifreda reminisces about her childhood, the narrative plunges into the story of the previous generation, telling of an incestuous affair between Chofy's uncle Danny and Beatrice, Danny's sister. Chofy meets Rosa on a trip to Guyana's capital, Georgetown, to see his aunt Wifreda, a hospitalized old woman on the verge of going blind. One doomed romance is the adulterous liaison between Chofy McKinnon, a half-Scot, half-Indian, cattle rancher, and Rosa Mendelson, a British scholar researching Evelyn Waugh's visit to the country in the 1930s. Two illicit love affairs are the vertebrae of an absorbing story set against the background of colonial life in exotic surroundings. ![]() In Melville's ambitious and richly realized debut set in modern-day Guyana, religious, social and philosophical tensions beset all the characters. ![]()
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