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Racing With The Rain Ken Puddicombe Books

A gripping page-turner. Puddicombe blends the past and present, creating tension and greater appreciation of what is at stake when a son returns home to his birthplace to bury his father with whom he has had a troubled relationship. The connection with my own return to Guyana after my father's death was immediate and heartfelt. A story that brings to the fore the conflicting relationships between a father and his sons.


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Racing With The Rain Ken Puddicombe Books Reviews

I completed this novel in 3 days for the turning of every page drove me deeper into the story, politics and human side of the characters. The author's vision and story were well told and a remarkable representation of colonialism. Highly recommended.
"Racing with the Rain" portrays a vivid account of life in Guyana and has fired my deep longing to visit the country. The writer has captured the atmosphere and mood of the ordinary people and their interaction with the political issues of that time. I could not put the book down ; it was absorbing right to the end. Ken is a talented and fiercely observant writer with a sensitive understanding of human emotions and I felt this was a very compelling story.
Ken Puddicombe's intriguing novel takes us back to a time when British Guiana (now Guyana) and the wider Caribbean were the pawns in the on-going conflicts between colonial powers. The will of the people and the welfare of the common man mattered little in that time of Cold War rivalry. The story's characters come alive from the very first page and I attribute this to the author's gripping writing style. The tensions among the members of a Guyanese family are palpable. They reverberate from the beginning of the story when it is seen that the government's deep-seated corruption has caused a family to flee the country and has literally torn them apart.
This book will appeal to anyone who is interested in the interplay between powerful nations to the detriment of a relatively small country.
I recommend this book wholeheartedly.
Very fast reading
Thanks for writing this novel and revealing what was silenced and distorted for so long. A gripping story and a real page turner for someone who was too young to understand all the hatred and violence of the 1960s in Guyana.
I love the author's use of descriptive language. The setting and characters jump off the pages of the book.
Racing With the Rain has many layers to it. It examines family conflict, political upheaval and personal turmoil. The reader follows the main character, Carl Dias, through a journey where he discovers what really matters in life.
Very well written,the author seems to have been very thorough in his research. Unfortunately though it brought back long forgotten memories of a very scary time in Guyana, it was also nostalgic,taking me back to other earlier happy & carefree days. Yes, it was a race with the rain, homes open to let in the fresh air had to be quickly shuttered before it came clattering down onto the zinc roofs. Good reading.
A gripping page-turner. Puddicombe blends the past and present, creating tension and greater appreciation of what is at stake when a son returns home to his birthplace to bury his father with whom he has had a troubled relationship. The connection with my own return to Guyana after my father's death was immediate and heartfelt. A story that brings to the fore the conflicting relationships between a father and his sons.