Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Discerner of Hearts

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The nine vividly rendered stories of place and character in Discerner of Hearts are set in Jamaica, both rural and urban, some present-day, others looking back several decades. Senior’s gift for fine characterization, for recreating the music of everyday speech, pervades these tales, which explore notions of home and exile as well as the intricate realm of the human spirit – its fallible nature, its indomitable strength against the sometimes downward pull of fate.

Language: English

Pages: 232

Format: Paperback

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Release: March 25, 1995

ISBN: 0771080530

ISBN 13: 9780771080531

Discerner of Hearts

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The nine vividly rendered stories of place and character in Discerner of Hearts are set in Jamaica, both rural and urban, some present-day, others looking back several decades. Senior’s gift for fine characterization, for recreating the music of everyday speech, pervades these tales, which explore notions of home and exile as well as the intricate realm of the human spirit – its fallible nature, its indomitable strength against the sometimes downward pull of fate.

Language: English

Pages: 232

Format: Paperback

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Release: March 25, 1995

ISBN: 0771080530

ISBN 13: 9780771080531

More books from Olive Senior

Anna Carries Water

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Summer Lightning and Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Gardening in the Tropics

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Boonoonoonous Hair

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Pain Tree

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Birthday Suit

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories

Over the Roofs of the World

Ebony G. Patterson: While the Dew Is Still on the Roses

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Pandemic Poems: First Wave

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage

3.6/5 ( ratings)

JAMAICA WRITES 50 Great Reads for Jamaica’s 50th

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Eclairs de chaleur (Ecrits d'ailleurs)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Dancing Lessons

3.6/5 ( ratings)

L'albero del dolore

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Quartet of Stories (Modern Women Writers)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Shell

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?