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Description for Exile 1
Paperback. The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa. Translator(s): Petersen, Mette. Series: The Africa Trilogy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 432.
For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere? Exile is the first of three ... Read more
For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere? Exile is the first of three ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
The Africa Trilogy
Condition
New
Weight
432g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857050595
SKU
V9780857050595
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jakob Ejersbo
Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Nordkraft, which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer.
Reviews for Exile 1
'There is more to contemporary Scandinavian fiction than thrillers ... a hardcore version of an American high school rom-com, with drug-fuelled orgies replacing drugstores and the Prom' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail.
Daily Mail
'Seldom has anyone written anything so insistent and impassioned, so glowing hot and ice-cold, so heartfelt and so cynical' Klaus Rothstein, Danish Literary Magazine.
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Daily Mail
'Seldom has anyone written anything so insistent and impassioned, so glowing hot and ice-cold, so heartfelt and so cynical' Klaus Rothstein, Danish Literary Magazine.
... Read more