A Distant Shore
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A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting point: her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781400034505 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400034507 |
| Title | A Distant Shore |
| Author | Caryl Phillips |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Year published | 2005-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book 2004, Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2004, Nominated for Booker Prize 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |