The Dragon Can't Dance

The Dragon Can't Dance is an immersive canvas of shanty-town life, a Caribbean classic in which Lovelace's intimate knowledge of rural Trinidad is brilliantly brought to life.

But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples' hopes, and the feeling that 'all o' we is one'?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can't Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.

'A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.' C. L. R. James

'First-class talent.' The Voice

Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill - poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn ­­- is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples' hopes, and the feeling that 'all o' we is one'?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can't Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.