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Author:

Jennings, Karen, 1982- author.

Title:

An island : a novel / Karen Jennings.

Edition:

First US edition.

Publisher:

Hogarth,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

210 pages ; 19 cm

Subject:

Refugees--Fiction.
South African fiction (English)
Fiction.
Novels.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0593446526
9780593446522

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1274229020

LCCN:

2021049281

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