| Description |
210 pages ; 20 cm |
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"Originally published in Great Britain by Holland House Books in 2020"--Title page verso. |
| 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. |
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Refugees -- Fiction.
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Political prisoners -- Fiction.
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Islands -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Regret -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Novels.
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| ISBN |
9780593446522 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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