The stories in A Thief in the Village depict the everyday life of Jamaicans as Berry experienced it in his youth.
The stories feature the Jamaican dialect, keen observations of the details of ordinary Jamaican life, and vividly drawn characters based on villagetypes he knew long ago. Spiderman Anancy (1988) is a retelling of Jamaican.....
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