The Final Passage

The Final Passage
First edition (p/b)
AuthorCaryl Phillips
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
London, 1985
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
ISBN0-571-13438-6 (1985 paperback edition)
OCLC11399626
823/.914 20
LC ClassPR9275.S263 P473 1985

The Final Passage is Caryl Phillips's debut novel. First published in 1985, it is about the Caribbean diaspora exemplified in the lives of a young family from a small island of the British West Indies who decide to join the 1950s exodus to the mother country. They arrive in London full of hope, but their hopes are thwarted while new challenges, if not opportunities, never thought of before, seem to arise.