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Book: My Father's House - In Search of a Lost Past by Matthew Carr
categories: Book, Autobiography, Biography, True Life Stories, Guyana, Caribbean, Alcoholism, Addiction, British Empire, Colonial History, Jonestown, MemoirMatthew Carr

My decision to return to Guyana for the first time since 1967 was partly prompted by the confused circumstances that preceded my father's death, in which he seemed to express a wish to return to his native land. My Father's House tells the extraordinary story of what happened on that visit. It is part memoir, part travelogue, part mystery and part philosophical meditation on the nature of memory and the fragility of family relationships, that echoes Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry and Joseph Conrad. First published in the UK in 1998 by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books, it remains the most personal of my five published books, and has been out of print for many years.
It is now available for the first time as a self-published e-book. This is an opportunity for a new generation of readers - including readers in the US, where it was never published - to discover a book that moved many reviewers and readers when it first came out, which The Times described as ' a monumental exploration of the paradoxes of Empire. It is written as if from the pen of a novelist, superbly plotted with a marvellous sense of the intricacies of character and a panoramic view of British and colonial history. Matthew Carr has made astonishing art of his father's wreckage.'
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