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The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay´s final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. This colorful, dramatic novel centres on the efforts by Harlem intelligentsia to organise support for the liberation of fascist-controlled Ethiopia. At once a penetrating satire of political machinations in Depression-era Harlem and a story of global intrigue and romance, Amiable with Big Teeth plunges into the concerns, anxieties, hopes, and dreams of African-Americans at a moment of crisis for the soul of Harlem.

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This is a major discovery. It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem
Renaissance writers.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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McKay, Claude
Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. He also published two other novels, Banjo and Banana Bottom, as well as a collection of short stories, Gingertown, two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica and a work of non-fiction, Harlem: Negro Metropolis. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.

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