THE Gemini are agile and know how to pretend very well. At three years Jamaica Kincaid With the help of the mother he declares five in order to enter school.
Its birthplace summarizes the transgressive flash, the speed in changing, as well as an unsettling earlinessthanks to Mercury, Venus and Uranus in twins, planets who burn the stages.
At sixteen he leaves Antigua to land in the United States where he works as a domestic help, but within ten years he already works for the New Yorker. The desire to be a writer with Uranus joined to the sun creates the turning point.
Jamaica Kincaid was born on May 25, 1949 (photo by Alberto Cristofari / contrast).
At that point his real name changes Elaine Cinthia Potter Richardson in Jamaica Kincaid. Why? The Moon in Taurus opposed to Saturn reports the conflicting relationship with the mother. “I didn’t want her to read me laughing at me. Still, he gave me the strength to survive his cruelty ».
Mars, planet of the will in the bucolic sign of the Taurus, tells the deep link with the earth and love for plants who led her to travel three weeks in Nepal to look for seeds to plant on her return to her garden in Vermont. It was a dangerous but illuminating journey.
“Walk on the Himalaya” by Jamaica Kincaid (Adelphi)
The last book
With Pluto in lion, Kincaid does not stop in front of any danger. In his new novel Walk on the Himalaya (Adelphi) You can breathe the light dimension of its sign, capable of mixing the colors of the Caribbean with the seeds of a new land.
This is the talent of A prodigious writer who traveled the world to give shape to a different landscape in his garden. And inside itself.
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