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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jennings, Karen, 1982- author.     Subjects     Refugees -- Africa -- Fiction.     Africa -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jennings, Karen, 1982- author.       by title:      An island : a novel ...         MARC Display

An island : a novel / Karen Jennings. by Jennings, Karen, 1982- author. London ; New York : Hogarth, [2020] Subjects Refugees -- Africa -- Fiction.   Africa -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593446522 (hardcover) : 0593446526 (hardcover) : Description:  210 pages ; 19 cm Edition:  First US edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he nurses the stranger back to life, Samuel--feeling unsettled and strangely threatened--is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland: a life that saw his country exploited under colonial rule, followed by a period of revolution and a brief, hard-won independence, only for the cycle of suffering to continue under a cruel dictator. And he can't help but recall his own shameful role in that history. In this stranger's presence he begins to consider, as he did in his youth: What does it mean to own land, or to belong to it? And what does it cost to have--and lose--a home?-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Laupahoehoe P/S Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult New Books Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked out 06/19/2024 Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Fiction Jennings Checked In   Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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