Intended

Talks about the narrator, who is twelve when he leaves his village in Guyana to come to England, where he is abandoned by his father into social care, but later wins a scholarship to Oxford. Featuring the narrator's Guyanese childhood and youth in working-class Balham, this novel explores the cost to his personality of losing that past.

Vorbeste despre narator, care are doisprezece ani cand isi paraseste satul din Guyana pentru a veni in Anglia, unde este abandonat de tatal sau in ingrijirea sociala, dar mai tarziu castiga o bursa la Oxford. Prezentand copilaria si tineretea guyaneze a naratorului in clasa muncitoare Balham, acest roman exploreaza costul pentru personalitatea sa de a pierde trecutul.