One of this author's characters is shaken after he kills a mother spider, believing that it is an omen of his impending death.
One of this author's characters is shaken after he kills a mother spider, believing that it is an omen of his impending death. One of this author's protagonist is told by a vision that he should not live in a hut because he has royal blood, and receives a tribute of lilies from the Ku Klux Klan. Along with Felix Hobain, who is arrested by Corporal Lestrade and dreams that he is an old man named Makak, this author's other characters include an injured fisherman who drinks at Ma Kilman's No Pain Cafe. This author referenced the (*) Mau Mau Uprising in a poem that asks, "How can I turn from Africa and live?" while in another of his works, Major Plunkett's servant Helen is fought over by the fishermen Hector and Achille. For 10 points, name this St. Lucian author of "Dream on Monkey Mountain" and "A Far Cry from Africa" who adapted the Iliad in Omeros.
One of this author's characters is shaken after he kills a mother spider, believing that it is an omen of his impending death.
Derek Walcott