The dragon can't dance

Description:

In Trinidad the martial arts dancer, Aldrick Prospect, fights the commercialization of the Mardi Gras carnival. Sick to see the country's traditions destroyed-- warrior contests have been replaced by games for tourists-- he joins a coup d'etat, serves a stint in jail and never dances again.

subjects: Poor,  Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction,  Carnival,  Fiction,  Fiction, general,  Caribbean area, fiction

Places: Trinidad and Tobago,  Port of Spain