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First US edition. |
| Description |
210 pages ; 19 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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Adults lcdgt |
| Note |
Originally published in Great Britain by Holland House Books in 2020. |
| Summary |
"Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he nurses the stranger back to life, Samuel--feeling unsettled and strangely threatened--is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland: a life that saw his country exploited under colonial rule, followed by a period of revolution and a brief, hard-won independence, only for the cycle of suffering to continue under a cruel dictator. And he can't help but recall his own shameful role in that history. In this stranger's presence he begins to consider, as he did in his youth: What does it mean to own land, or to belong to it? And what does it cost to have--and lose--a home? A timeless and gripping portrait of regret, fear, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Africa -- Fiction.
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Africa -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Psychological.
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FICTION / Political.
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FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Southern Africa.
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FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural.
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| Genre |
Political fiction.
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Fictional Work (DNLM)D022922
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Novels.
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Political fiction.
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| Related To |
Online version: Jennings, Karen, 1982- Island. First edition New York, New York : Hogarth, [2022] 9780593446539 (DLC) 2021049282 |
| ISBN |
9780593446522 hardcover ; acid-free paper : $25.00 |
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0593446526 hardcover ; acid-free paper |
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9780593446539 electronic book |
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