- British, Fiction, Literature, Reverse culture shock
From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again.For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the…
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About the book
- Author
- Jonathan Raban
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780002229180
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