Derek Walcott – Omeros – First US Edition 1990

A first US edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, in 1990. A near fine book in the original cloth, in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper, unclipped, featuring a painting by the author.

Walcott’s major Caribbean epic interweaves the lives of St Lucian fishermen with echoes of Homer, exploring love, displacement, colonial history and belonging. An ambitious and richly evocative work, published two years before the author received the Nobel Prize in Literature.