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When Greek Meets Greek

by Sam Selvon (1923-1994)

A comic but biting story of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London, where two friends pretend to be Indian to navigate the racism of the British housing market.

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Rights notice: © the Sam Selvon estate (1923-1994). Quotations are short fair-dealing extracts under CDPA 1988 §30 (criticism, review, quotation). The full story is in Selvon’s collection Ways of Sunlight (1957). It is not in the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology.

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