Karen Lord was born in Barbados. She has been a physics teacher, a diplomat, a part-time soldier and an academic at various times and in various countries, before returning to Barbados, where she is now a writer and research consultant. Her debut novel, Redemption in Indigo, won a slew of awards, including the Frank Collymore Literary Award, the William L. Crawford Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award for Best Debut Novel and the Mythopoeic Award, and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Redemption in Indigo, The Best of All Possible Worlds and its sequel, The Galaxy Game, are published by Jo Fletcher Books.
A clever, exuberant mix of Caribbean and Senegalese influences . .
. Lord manages to compress her story while balancing the cosmic and
the personal - all with a verve that would be the envy of many
veteran novelists
*New York Times Book Review*
The perfect antidote to the formula fantasies currently flooding
the market
*Guardian*
You can almost hear the beat of African drums as the rhythm of the
prose reverberates through your mind, and you will almost wish that
you were listening to someone reading it aloud, the way folk tales
are meant to be told
*Book Monkey*
This is one of those literary works of which it can be said that
not a word should be changed
*Booklist*
Redemption in Indigo . . . combine[s] comedy, a sense of
mythic-ness, gravity, and sheer elegance
*Charles Tan*
The characters are beautifully drawn . . . the adventure points
beyond itself to insights about human experience in general
*Fantasy Faction*
The impish love child of Tutuola and Marquez. Utterly
delightful
*Nalo Hopkinson*
The whole thing is enormous fun, thanks not least to a chatty,
companionable narrator . . . Ace.
*SFX*
This retelling of a Senegalese folk tale packs a great deal of
subtly alluring storytelling into this small package
*Publishers Weekly*
Redemption in Indigo is a fairy tale for the new generation, filled
with spirits, magic and touches of African and Caribbean
folklore
*The Voice*
Sprightly from start to finish, with vivid descriptions, memorable
heroes and villains, brisk pacing - clever storytelling
*Caribbean Review of Books*
Charmingly told
*Sunday Telegraph*
Karen Lord is doing something different and that's to be
applauded
*Independent on Sunday*
Karen Lord is one of the hot writers of the day in SF . . .
Redemption in Indigo marries Caribbean and Senegalese traditions
into a fable not dissimilar in tone to José Saramago's Cain, which
likewise deploys humour and parable-like set pieces to peel back
layers of myth. It's a beautiful work of fiction
*staffersbookreview.com*
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