Crossing the River

p>b>Shortlisted for the Booker Prizebr> Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction/b>br>br>Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.br>br>‘Epic and frequently astonishing’br> i>The Times/i>br>br>‘Its resonance continues to deepen’br> i>New York Times/i>/p> p>b>Shortlisted for the Booker Prizebr> Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction/b>br>br>Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.br>br>‘Epic and frequently astonishing’br> i>The Times/i>br>br>‘Its resonance continues to deepen’br> i>New York Times/i>/p>