Beka Lamb

Beka Lamb

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author = Zee Edgell
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country = BLZ
language = English
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genre = Historical, Young adult novel
publisher = Heinemann (Caribbean Writers Series)
release_date = 1982
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media_type = Print
pages = 172 pp (paperback)
isbn = ISBN 978-0-435-98844-9
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followed_by = In Times Like These

Beka Lamb is the debut novel from Belizean writer Zee Edgell, published in 1982 as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series. It won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1983 and was one of the first novels from Belize to gain international recognition. Deals with social insecurity, racial prejudice and the rule of the consecutive church in a small town.

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