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This is an autobiographical novel based on the author’s own experiences as teacher in an East End London school after the war, after having been a British Royal Air Force pilot during the war. Neither his color nor his ethnicity was of importance during the war, but after they certainly were. Through this work the author is focusing attention on such hypocrisy and on racial and ethnic discrimination. He was born in Georgetown, British Guyana, in 1912 and died at the age of 104 in 2016!
The strength of this book lies in its message that the best means of fighting discrimination is through shared experiences between those who are different. Having a close friend of a skin color, religion or ethnic background different from you own teaches more than book learning can ever accomplish.
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