Description

After you’ve read Hemmingway and Camus and seen how powerful simple language can be, you’ll be glad to have discovered Jean Goulbourne. Parable of the Mangoes takes simple occurrences such as a boy being punished for sharing with a neighbour across the fence and shows us that prejudice is not just racial. Or the father who’d rather go to his grave than attend the wedding of his estranged son because of the younger’s Rastafarianism. So many of the things that imprison and divide us are explored in her lyrical poetic way without sending us to the dictionary, meaning she doesn’t regurgitate a thesaurus.