Selvon paints several pictures of West Indian immigrant life in London in the 1950s through a series of loosely connected vignettes, pitting the desires of the working class for social mobility against self-doubt and disappointment.Â

The Lonely Londoners
Country of Authorship: Trinidad & Tobago
Author: Sam Selvon
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Longmans (UK) | St Martin’s Press (US)
Publication Year: 1956