We look forward to seeing you at the London launch of Robert Antoni’s Cut Guavas
Doors will open from 6pm and the event runs to 8.30pm.
Additional guests are welcome subject to availability as the venue has a set capacity. If you would like to bring a plus one please email hq@renaissanceone.co.uk to confirm and RSVP.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Cut Guavas is a mash-up of three fictional stories: that of the actual Trinidadian-born actor, Austin Stoker, who is, in old age, shooting the sequel to the Hollywood film in which he made his name, Assault on the Civilization of the Simians; the story of Austin’s origins in 1940s Trinidad; and scenes in which Austin and his wife, Robin, scrutinise the film he is making. There’s still another layer, which readers of Antoni’s Bocas prize-winning As Flies to Whatless Boys will anticipate with pleasure: the presence of wickedly comic metatextual authorial notes and commentary.
Cut Guavas is written in a spirit of fun that nevertheless makes serious points about race in the New World. Antoni combines its multiple strands which include fiction, film script, history, humour, and the wickedly comic metatextual authorial notes and commentary that readers would have experienced in the prize-winning As Flies to Whatless Boys, in a way that feels seamless.
‘Antoni isn't just writing literature with Cut Guavas, he's cutting it open, sinking under the skin, pumping new blood into the veins, and shaping it into unimaginable forms.’ – Marlon James, ManBooker Prize winner, 2015
Cut Guavas is published by Peepal Tree Press (2018, 196 pages, ISBN 9781845234294, priced at £14.99)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Antoni was born in America of Trinidadian parents and grew up largely in the Bahamas. He is the author of six books: Divina Trace, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel (1992), Blessed is the Fruit, My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, Carnival, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (2005) and As Flies to Whatless Boys, for which he was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015. His latest novel, Cut Guavas, was longlisted for the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
Antoni holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA and PhD from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He lives in New York and teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School University.
WEBSITES
https://www.robertantoni.com
https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/cut-guavas
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