Author: Karen Jennings
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0593446526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores—An Island is the American debut of a major voice in world literature. “An Island by Karen Jennings is quite simply a revelation—a ferocious, swift chess game of a novel.”—Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth Samuel has lived alone on an 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 strangely threatened—is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland. This was 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, terror, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound.
An Island
Author: Karen Jennings
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0593446526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores—An Island is the American debut of a major voice in world literature. “An Island by Karen Jennings is quite simply a revelation—a ferocious, swift chess game of a novel.”—Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth Samuel has lived alone on an 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 strangely threatened—is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland. This was 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, terror, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound.
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0593446526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores—An Island is the American debut of a major voice in world literature. “An Island by Karen Jennings is quite simply a revelation—a ferocious, swift chess game of a novel.”—Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth Samuel has lived alone on an 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 strangely threatened—is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland. This was 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, terror, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound.
Prize Essay. Vancouver Island: its resources and capabilities, as a colony. By Charles Forbes. [With an appendix.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Pages : 90
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The Farmer
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Includes Report of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, 1963-
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Includes Report of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, 1963-
Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World
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Category : Jersey cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1822
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Category : Jersey cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1822
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Herd Register
Author: American Guernsey Cattle Club
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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English Herd Book and Register of Pure Bred Jersey Cattle
Author: English Jersey Cattle Society
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Jersey Bulletin
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Category : Dairying
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
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Category : Dairying
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
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The Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World
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Category : Dairying
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Category : Dairying
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Field Illustrated
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Hoard's Dairyman
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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