While Gods Are Falling Seema Atalla Broken Cups

Broken Cups

Commentary Magazine 1945-1959 (Vallentine Mitchell)

I draw myself

and one practised by my father and mother

In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

While Gods Are Falling Seema Atalla Broken CupsWalter Castle is festering with dissatisfactions in the Laventille slum in Port of Spain. As the prospect of promotion recedes and the threat of crime and lawless and rootless youth become ever more insupportable, he begins to think of going back to the village community he grew up in. But as Lovelace shows in a series of flashbacks, the force of nostalgia is not supported by actual memory, though Walter constantly tries to deceive himself that it is.