The Island of Forgetting
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2022
The Borough Press (Verlag)
978-0-00-853289-5 (ISBN)
The Borough Press (Verlag)
978-0-00-853289-5 (ISBN)
‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMES
In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.
There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity.
Each of them longs to escape – to go beyond the borders and circumstances that have contained them for so long – but each finds that they are trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments; and that it is dictating a future over which they have little control.
With every passing decade another generation must contend with the same doubts about their identity, about their place in the small world they have carved out for themselves and the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures?
Perfect for fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING is a powerful story of family and hope, and marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
THE TIMES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.
There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity.
Each of them longs to escape – to go beyond the borders and circumstances that have contained them for so long – but each finds that they are trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments; and that it is dictating a future over which they have little control.
With every passing decade another generation must contend with the same doubts about their identity, about their place in the small world they have carved out for themselves and the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures?
Perfect for fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING is a powerful story of family and hope, and marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
THE TIMES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
Jasmine Sealy is a British-born, Barbadian-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2017) and included in Best Canadian Stories (2021). In 2020 she won the University of British Columbia/HarperCollins Fiction Prize for this novel.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 530 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen | |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-853289-3 / 0008532893 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-853289-5 / 9780008532895 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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