Dear Future

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 206, [6, blank]. Burgundy cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; black endpapers. Jacket design by Chris Shamwana, with an illustration by Ian Craig.

D'Aguiar's second novel. Winner of the 1996 Guyana Prize for Literature. An accidental axe blow to the head confers a visionary world perspective to a young Caribbean child, in this moving story about memory and the past. "[A] bold, funny and sensuous book." –Sean O'Brien, London Review of Books