# Black Midas, Vol. 1

By **Jan Carew**

- ISBN-13: 9781845230951
- Series: [Caribbean Modern Classics](https://mybookbandits.com/series/caribbean-modern-classics)
- Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- Published: 25 May 2009

## About this book

Astonishingly vivid, bawdy, and tempestuous, this novel is a cautionary tale about greed and class conflict in postcolonial Guyana. Comparing ruthless 20th-century prospectors to the long-ago Spanish explorers who raped a continent in their quest for El Dorado, the novel follows the dreams and delusions of Aron Smart,

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