The Dragon Can't Dance

¿A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.¿ C. L. R. James

¿First-class talent.¿ The Voice

Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill ¿ poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn ¿¿¿ is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples¿ hopes, and the feeling that ¿all o¿ we is one¿?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can¿t Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.