Pynter Bender

Pynter Bender by Jacob Ross


Authors
Jacob Ross
ISBN
9780007222971
Published
Released
03 / 11 / 2008
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
464
Dimensions
145 x 222 x 38mm

Pynter Bender is a child of the cane fields of Grenada‚ the second smallest independent state in the world. This extraordinary novel‚ Jacob Ross's first‚ experienced through a boy born blind but whose eyes are healed‚ charts the painful awakening of a rural population‚ essentially organised around serfdom‚ into a raw and uncertain future that can only be achieved through fighting‚ a civil war that Pynter is drawn in to.

Pynter's father leaves him to be brought up by the Bender women‚ a close-knit group of aunts and cousins‚ and Pynter's early life is shaped by these women. He begins to understand a world beyond them when his uncle‚ Birdie the Beloved‚ the best baker on the island‚ occasionally returns to the family on his brief periods out of jail. When Pynter comes to love a woman‚ and later flees his family to hide in the canes from the marauding soldiers‚ he can no longer ignore the violent world beyond the yard where he lives.

The Cutting Season is about the conflict between the world of men and women‚ men who walk away from their families and from the cane fields and their women who forbear. It brilliantly describes the birth of a modern West Indian island and the shaping of its people as they struggle to shuck off the systems that have essentially kept them in slavery for centuries.
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