Travellers
Author: Habila, Helon
ISBN: 9780241986295
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Poignant and beautifully sculpted, a novel about exile, identity and the many kinds of travellers moving through our modern world
Modern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls- among them a Nigerian American couple on a prestigious arts fellowship, a transgender film student seeking the freedom of authenticity, a Libyan doctor who lost his wife and child in the waters of the Mediterranean, and a Somalian shopkeeper trying to save his young daughter from forced marriage. And, though the divide between the self-chosen exiles and those who are forced to leave home may feel solid, in reality such boundaries are tenuous, shifting, and frighteningly soluble.
Moving from a Berlin nightclub to a Sicilian refugee camp to the London apartment of a Malawian poet, Helon Habila evokes a rich mosaic of migrant experiences. And through his characters' interconnecting fates, he traces the extraordinary pilgrimages we all might make in pursuit of home.
ISBN: 9780241986295
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Poignant and beautifully sculpted, a novel about exile, identity and the many kinds of travellers moving through our modern world
Modern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls- among them a Nigerian American couple on a prestigious arts fellowship, a transgender film student seeking the freedom of authenticity, a Libyan doctor who lost his wife and child in the waters of the Mediterranean, and a Somalian shopkeeper trying to save his young daughter from forced marriage. And, though the divide between the self-chosen exiles and those who are forced to leave home may feel solid, in reality such boundaries are tenuous, shifting, and frighteningly soluble.
Moving from a Berlin nightclub to a Sicilian refugee camp to the London apartment of a Malawian poet, Helon Habila evokes a rich mosaic of migrant experiences. And through his characters' interconnecting fates, he traces the extraordinary pilgrimages we all might make in pursuit of home.
