In Trinidad, in the wake of 1970's Black Power rebellion, we follow Sonnyboy, Singer King Kala, and their town's folk through experiments in music, politics, religion, and love—and in their day-to-day adventures. Humorous and serious, sad and uplifting,
Is Just a Movie
, is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.
Earl Lovelace
's books include
While Gods Are Falling
, winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic
The Dragon Can't Dance
; and
Salt
, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For
, he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe and the 2012 OCM
Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.