Colonial Sketches and Stories

This collection of short anecdotal sketches and stories attempts to depict impressionistically the rural colonial life in an era in British Guiana long gone. The narrative voice is that of young Ralph. The stories, though largely fictionalized, are loosely based on true incidents. In trying to evoke the color, spectacle, and mores of the period, Ralph looks at the fun and games of childhood in a sugar plantation.

Paris Singh was born in Rose Hall Estate, Canje, British Guiana, in 1943. Afte...