ISBN 9781566892957The Last Warner Woman features compelling settings, masterful story-tellers, a mystery, colorful characters, and language that resonates with beauty. She grows up to become a "warner woman", which is a type of prophetess who "warns" people of natural catastrophes. . Before the first before, The Last Warner Woman is a novel born of a vision: a cold public square in industrial England, every head turned toward a lone, headdress-crowned Caribbean chanting down the heavens—"Flood!

. Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders Try Prime Cart. . The Last Warner Woman is a work of historical fiction primarily set in Jamaica. Miller, who is also a poet, circles around his truths, teases out just-right words to hint at elusive meanings, and ends the novel by acknowledging that in every book 'the story within breathes its own breath.' Adamine Bustamante, the daughter of Pearline Portious is born in a leper colony. Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders Try Prime Cart. The Last Warner Woman: Miller, Kei: Books - Amazon.ca.

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The Last Warner Woman The Last Warner Woman 8.99 'One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told' Independent on Sunday FROM KEI MILLER, WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONOnce upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went somewhere that no … The Last Warner Woman will take you from places long forgotten to places of current descriptions. Of course, there is always a favourite chapter or verse and this time for me was when Kei brought to life the artistry of Bernard Stanley Hoyes. Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica’s last leper colonies.

"The Last Warner Woman is a 'splendocious' story, told 'crossways.' The Last Warner Woman eBook: Miller, Kei: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store. The Last Warner Woman – Coffee House Press A novel by Kei Miller March 27, 2012 • 5.5 x 8.3 • 256 pages • 978-1-56689-296-4 The American debut of a Caribbean literary talent often compared to Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy and Alexander McCall Smith. The novel can also be read as an unobtrusive treatise on storytelling that invites comparisons between Western ways of knowing the world and traditional ways of