# The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

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- Authors: [Paule Marshall](https://www.bookquiver.com/paule-marshall)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-9472-633-5
- Pages: 480
- Published: 1984-09-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance...