Tropic Death (Simi Press), the acclaimed collection of short stories by Guyanese Eric Walrond, has been reissued nearly a century after its original publication in 1926. Born in Georgetown in 1898, Walrond migrated to New York City at the age of 19, and quickly entered the literary and intellectual circles of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in the Caribbean and Central America during the construction of the Panama Canal, these stories portray the lives of working-class men and women at the turn of the century. The cruelty and violence of colonial life and the nature’s obliviousness to human suffering are inescapable in these powerful works of short fiction.