The Jumbie Bird is the tragic story of an East Indian family stranded in Trinidad, betrayed by the authorities and discarded by Mother India.
No-one can escape the sinister call of The Jumbie Bird , a ghostly message of death. It haunts the childhood world of Jamini: his father, a struggling jeweller; his fierce, proud grandfather, Kale Khan, a born fighter who dreams of returning to India; and the doomed relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Lakshmi.
The Jumbie bird returns, a symbolic and fearful omen, as Kale Khan prepares for his final battle.
This is Book 4 in the Longman Caribbean Writers Series. See all Longman Caribbean Writers books here.
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Ismith Khan was born in 1925 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in a house that looked out on the famous Woodford Square where much of the action of The Jumbie bird takes place. Indeed this is where much of the drama of pre-independence politics in Trinidad was enacted through the years that Khan was growing up. His grandfather,
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