Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings with him secrets - of a family tragedy that he failed to prevent and a childhood overshadowed by war. And as he wanders snowy streets, falling in love with fellow exile Shoreh, he realizes that to find a place in this alien world it is necessary to become someone else. Someone he never dared to be in his past life . . .
ISBN: | 9780141040813 |
Publication date: | 3rd June 2010 |
Author: | Rawi Hage |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 320 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Family Drama Crime and Mystery General Fiction War, combat and military adventure fiction |