Jean Rhys

Dominican-born British novelist (born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams), best known for Wide Sargasso Sea (1966); her work explores exile, displacement and alienation, chiefly active from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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  1. 1. Il Grande Mare Dei Sargassi

    A lush, haunting prequel told from the perspective of a Creole woman who grows up amid decay and racial tension in the Caribbean, is married off to an Englishman, and gradually loses her identity and agency as cultural dislocation, betrayal and domestic confinement close around her; the narrative traces her psychological unraveling and the violent consequences of colonialism, patriarchy and exile in a vivid, intimate voice.

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