Books by Robert Antoni

AS FLIES TO WHATLESS BOYS by Robert Antoni

FICTION & LITERATURE

Released: Sept. 3, 2013

AS FLIES TO WHATLESS BOYS

by Robert Antoni

"Strikes strong emotional chords."

Antoni (Carnival, 2005, etc.) offers up a novel set in 19th-century and modern-day Trinidad. Read full book review >

FICTION & LITERATURE

Released: Feb. 1, 2005

CARNIVAL

by Robert Antoni

"An okay story, sunk by pretensions."

Antoni (My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, 2001, etc.) turns a Hemingway classic of early-20th-century angst into a less-than-classic tale of Caribbean aimlessness. Read full book review >

Released: April 1, 2001

MY GRANDMOTHER’S EROTIC FOLKTALES

by Robert Antoni

"It's a mess (the concluding episode is especially disjointed and truncated), but Grandmother's sensual energies and fluent loquacity make this Antoni's most accessible and enjoyable fiction nevertheless."

Another inveterate yarnspinner dominates this chaotically structured yet frequently entertaining third novel (Blessed Is the Fruit, 1997, etc.) from American-born Antoni, who grew up in the Bahamas. Read full book review >

FICTION & LITERATURE

Released: April 1, 1997

BLESSED IS THE FRUIT

by Robert Antoni

"Caribbean gothic with literary pretensions."

In Caribbean writer Antoni's second novel (after Divina Trace, 1992), drenched to soddenness with lush language and symbolism, two women—one black, one white—tell their melodramatic life stories to an unborn child. Read full book review >

FICTION & LITERATURE

Released: Feb. 14, 1992

DIVINA TRACE

by Robert Antoni

"Where was the editor on watch when this book came through?"

Old Granny Myrna, on her deathbed, tells her grandson, Johnny Domingo, the miraculous Caribbean tale of Magdelena the nun who, with Barto as the father, births a half-man/half-frog child whose existence then becomes the stuff of legend and leads to Magdelena's universal canonization on the island of Corpus Christi by the whole ethnic mix. Read full book review >