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Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very unwelcome guest in his cousin's home before tracking down Shingi in a Brixton squat. In this astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a refugee. This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal Zimbabwean immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide. From the first line the language fizzes with energy, humour and not a little menace. 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