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A Distant Shore: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004, Best Book - Softcover

Phillips, Caryl

 
9780099428886: A Distant Shore: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004, Best Book
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099428881 ISBN 13: 9780099428886
Verlag: Vintage, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers, she is trying to rebuild a life.

It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living in the village, but his African origin suggests a complex history that is at odds with his dull routine of washing the car and making short trips to the supermarket. Though all he has in common with the English is a shared language, it soon becomes clear that Solomon hopes that his new country will provide him with a safe haven. Gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presence that alleviates the isolation they both feel.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099428881
ISBN 13 
9780099428886
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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