Set in the remote Trinidad village of Bonasse, Lovelace depicts the trials of a Spiritual Baptist community in the wake of the Prohibition Ordinance banning their religious expression, and the tumults of race, power and authority in the colonial context.

The Wine of Astonishment
Country of Authorship: Trinidad & Tobago
Author: Earl Lovelace
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Andre Deutsch: London
Publication Year: 1982