Book
An island : a novel / Karen Jennings.
Record details
- ISBN: 0593446526
- ISBN: 9780593446522
- ISBN: 9780593446522
- ISBN: 0593446526
- Physical Description: pages ; 19 cm
- Edition: First [American] edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Hogarth, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Great Britain by Holland House Books in 2020. |
| Summary, etc.: | "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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| Subject: | Refugees > Fiction. South African fiction (English) |
| Genre: | Fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Killingworth Library Association | FIC JEN (Text) | 33420152951977 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| New Milford Public Library | F JENNI (Text) | 34021152985905 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sherman Library | F JEN (Text) | 34060153063080 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC JENNINGS, K (Text) | 34005151104592 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Southbury Public Library | JENNINGS (Text) | 34019154903868 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Tolland Public Library | F JEN (Text) | 34051151055525 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Weston Public Library | JENNINGS (Text) | 34053152777669 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
