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02857aam a2200481 i 4500 001 5E4450DAE23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220602010055 008 211008t20222019nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021049281 020 $a 0593446526 020 $a 9780593446522 035 $a (OCoLC)1274229020 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TP7 $d OCLCO $d SO$ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23/eng/20211008 100 1 $a Jennings, Karen, $d 1982- $e author. 245 13 $a An island : $b a novel / $c Karen Jennings. 250 $a First US edition. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Hogarth, $c [2022] 300 $a 210 pages ; $c 19 cm 500 $a Originally published in Great Britain by Holland House Books in 2020. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Refugees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a South African fiction (English) 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 13 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033543.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230523012218.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20230204010649.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20221123010127.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20220928010214.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024834.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220712010307.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220706023143.0 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20220702011344.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20220630011823.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220630010713.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220615010313.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220602010357.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E4450DAE23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search