![]() ![]() Earnshaw brings the orphan to his estate in the moors of northern England. Phillips adopts this method again in his new novel, “The Lost Child,” which might best be defined as a riff on “Wuthering Heights.” The book opens and closes by imagining young Heathcliff’s life before Mr. The stories are linked by theme and situation as opposed to setting and plot. ![]() Rather than tell one linear story, these later novels bring together several independent narratives set at different places on the globe and at different moments in time. His first two novels were fairly straightforward in style and structure, but with his third, “Higher Ground” (1989), Phillips introduced the more ambitious and unconventional approach he has used ever since. Immigration has been a key topic in Phillips’s work from his very first novel, “The Final Passage” (1985). Kitts in 1958, but as an infant he left with his parents during the mass migration of people from the Caribbean islands - still colonial subjects - to Britain in the 1950s. At age 57, Caryl Phillips is seen by many as the father of Afro-British fiction. ![]()
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