{"product_id":"book-vlt9","title":"Natives of My Person","description":"\u003cb\u003eGeorge Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, \u003ci\u003eNatives of My Person\u003c\/i\u003e plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, \u003ci\u003eNatives of My Person\u003c\/i\u003e, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche… an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67357519511856,"sku":"BDvlt9","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vlt9-Square-cover.jpg?v=1783771732","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vlt9","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}