Sweet Li Jie

by David Dabydeen

When the textile merchant Jia Yun leaves Wuhan Province in China for British Guiana in around 1876, his letters to his sweetheart Li Jie, owner of the only bicycle in the province, are full of the vivid characters he meets, like his Afro-Guyanese guide, Harris (with his esoteric theories), and Indian Coolie Gurr (with his instinctive feeling for what a humane society should be like). They, like Jia Yun, are busy remaking themselves in the post slavery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845235916
• ISBN13: 9781845235918
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 166 Pages