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'But it is as if I have broken some chain. And a rich swelling outwards of pleasure comes with being alive. Is this a beginning? Can I take the risk?' So begins the adventures of Boy; young, inexperienced, frustrated by his parents and the cloistered life he has led. One morning, while coming to terms with the fact that he has failed his school exams, his mother sends him to get marijuana for a festival. What should have been a simple errand suddenly becomes a spectacular journey of self-discovery. Travelling through the lush Mauritian landscape, filled with gnarled old mango trees, endless sugar cane fields, magnificent sunsets, and eerie, mysterious meanings, Boy confronts the dangers and deceits of the adult world, and with it the possibilities and the terror of freedom. Touching and exuberant, this is a wonderful story of courage, love and friendship.
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198 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Lindsey Explores A Young Man's Social And Sexual Awakening As He Leaves His Childhood Behind.
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‘A masterful storyteller’ -- Independent
‘For the real Mauritius, chuck away the brochures and read Lindsey Collen’ -- Mail and Guardian
‘How Collen does throw language about! ... Real talent, which this is, sweeps everything before it’ -- Mail on Sunday
‘For the real Mauritius, chuck away the brochures and read Lindsey Collen’ -- Mail and Guardian
‘How Collen does throw language about! ... Real talent, which this is, sweeps everything before it’ -- Mail on Sunday
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0747574677
- ISBN 13 9780747574675
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2005 A modern day Huckleberry Finn set in the lush tropical landscape of Mauritius The Rape of Sita won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1994 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 1996 208 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # INF1000168725
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