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For over thirty years, Goerge Grey has been a ship bunker in the west African nation of Montedor, a land of malaria and political upheaval. But now he's returning to England, to a life and world essentially foreign, and to the terra incognita of retirement. In the long days that follow it's almost impossible not to get lost in melancholy memories - all the more acute since the woman he loves is back in Africa - but with the help of a sailing boat and a burgeoning friendship with the quirkiest woman in town, the ache of loneliness begins to ease.
'Jonathan Raban's achievements in this novel are nothing short of awesome' Washington Post
'Raban has a wonderful gift . . . These characters seem to index an entire civilisation' Voice Literary Supplement
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"Jonathan Raban's achievements in this novel are nothing short of awesome." --"The Washington Post" "Raban has a wonderful gift...These characters seem to index an entire civilization." --"The Village Voice Literary Supplement " "Raban is a first-rate observer, with an eye for the ridiculous and a gift for the sudden pounce." --"Newsday "
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Raban's first novel, an engrossing account of what it can mean to return home
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0330292307
- ISBN 13 9780330292306
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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