- Fiction, Nigerians, Emigration and immigration, Young women
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Cleave
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- simon and schuester, Simon & Schuster, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780385665308
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About Chris Cleave · 1973
Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist.
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