"Reaper of Souls" - A novel about the 1957 Kendal crash in Jamaica
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- The Kendal crash was, at the time, the world's worst train catastrophe and the worst disaster in Jamaica's history, taking more than 250 lives, including 14 from East's family. Using the disaster as a backdrop, as well as eyewitness and survivor accounts, archival photographs, and the Commission of Inquiry Report (1958), East imagines a different outcome of the tragedy for the fictional Scott family.
Reaper of Souls begins on the day of the catastrophe and follows the Scotts as they leave Jamaica as part of the Great West Indian Migration to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. However, not all the Scotts decide to leave. Shuttling between Jamaica and London, Reaper of Souls details the family's attempts to adjust to and cope with their new lives as immigrants in a different world while trying to absorb their collective grief.
I picked up a copy of your book and was overwhelmed by the terrible train crash that took place! In a way you could think of it like Titanic except this event was a train crash instead of a ship sinking. Loosing 250 lives in such a violent way! It is part of Jamaican history.
One of my uncles was on that train,he allow migrated to England.I was told by another passenger,who was an alter boy in the Catholic Church then, that the accident was cause by street boys who were on the trip.They cut the wires supplying light to the coaches in order to pick pockets but on one occation they cut a brake hose instead! The rest is history.
the train left me at the railway station in kingston because there was too mannt people.
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It wasn't your time. Wow
Thank you for this,I was just surfing the internet and came upon this treasure. I was 3years old at the time of this incredible crash,and yes I am Jamaican and had Rheumatic fever. It amazes me that this is news to me,I quickly confirmed that it is not fake news. God's ways are not easy to understand .
Thank you I realized just today 6 of my family members by the name of giscombe died in Kendall crash. My father told me about the crash but never talk about it
my mother told me about that, ,,, she said family members told her, that her father was on that train he died, ,, he was from Kingston, , her mothers side of family, , mocho clarendon, , gloria, benette, ,, so sad, ,,, she never got to meet him, or his side of the family, ,,, Its so sad one of the many in Jamaican history,
I just purchased the book
the train crashed going going down the hill. at kendal.
Two survived
she got the story wrong.: she needs to check the story again ,and rewrite her book......l was there.
annoyed & disgusted after hearing how incredibly selfish of refusing to have the whole truth published n the humour this should have been a documentry don''t care...!
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Mark Gorney I would really love to read that book miss bev I would give anything to read this book so interesting I can still feels the pain of all those who lost love ones am so sorry it just seem like yesterday
My granddad was on this train his name was Herman George Miller he was 15 and survived only missing a button off his shirt he also helped with the injured and stuff afterwards he was from Kingston Jamaica and later was a do for sir cockson sounds
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The Train crashed on its way back to Kingston. I was an Alter Boy at St Anne’s and lost many friends. She mentioned a Priest but not his name. I knew every Priest who was at St Anne’s at that time. The only one who left the Priesthood was Harry Mallet. Was she referring to him?
the kendal crash happened going to montego bay not coming from montego bay
One old man say it happened coming back from Mo Bay in the dark around midnight.