Travellers
Autor Helon Habilaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iul 2020
Poignant and beautifully sculpted, a novel about exile, identity and the many kinds of travellers moving through our modern world - from the Caine Prize-winning author ofOil on WaterandWaiting for an Angel
Modern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls: among them a Nigerian American couple on a prestigious arts fellowship, a transgender film student seeking the freedom of authenticity, a Libyan doctor who lost his wife and child in the waters of the Mediterranean, and a Somalian shopkeeper trying to save his young daughter from forced marriage. And, though the divide between the self-chosen exiles and those who are forced to leave home may feel solid, in reality such boundaries are endlessly shifting and frighteningly soluble.
Moving from a Berlin nightclub to a Sicilian refugee camp to the London apartment of a Malawian poet, Helon Habila evokes a rich mosaic of migrant experiences. And through his characters' interconnecting fates, he traces the extraordinary pilgrimages we all might make in pursuit of home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241986295
ISBN-10: 024198629X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 024198629X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Helon
Habilais
the
author
ofOil
on
Water,
Measuring
Time,Waiting
for
an
Angel,andThe
Chibok
Girls.
He
is
professor
of
creative
writing
at
George
Mason
University
and
lives
in
Virginia
with
his
wife
and
three
children.
Recenzii
Helon
Habila's
fourth
novel
has
it
all
-
intelligence,
tragedy,
poetry,
love,
intimacy,
compassion
and
a
serious,
soulful,
arms-wide
engagementwith
one
of
the
most
acute
human
concerns
of
our
age:
the
refugee
crisis...
A wonderful gem. . .Heartbreaking but equally life-affirming tales that beautifully connect and intertwine,leaving us longing for more
Once I started readingTravellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe...The novel has all the weight of art with the sting of breaking news. It faces the urgent questions of our times and doesn't settle for easy answers...it is indeed Habila at his best.
Urgent, deeply empathetic, and resisting easy answers, TRAVELERS follows the interconnected lives of African immigrants and refugees in Europe and examines the meanings of freedom, diaspora and home.Habila is a masterful storyteller, and this novel a riveting testament to the power of fiction.
Describing worlds and convergences that are unforgettable, Helon Habila writes of individual lives - pulled apart by our wars, our failed states and our deepest fears - with insight and searing compassion
At once intimate and expansive,Travellerscaptivated me from the very first pages
a parable of our times and Habila tells it beautifully,shedding poignant light on the world of the dispossessed and the stateless.
Adroitlyteasing out the rich quiddity of his characters' diverse journeys, he instead makes the simple yet valuable point thatrefugees' lives are as irreducibly complex as anyone else's.
A quietly haunting novel that captures the untethered, unreal nature of migrant and refugee existence.
Yarns of persecution, paranoia, even manslaughter, unspool across its patchwork pattern.Habila tells them with cunning, flair and a sleight-of-hand that lightens even the gloomiest scenes.
In an era of mass migration, Habila suggests,stories are a common ground, a means of making ourselves at home with our homelessness.
A wonderful gem. . .Heartbreaking but equally life-affirming tales that beautifully connect and intertwine,leaving us longing for more
Once I started readingTravellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe...The novel has all the weight of art with the sting of breaking news. It faces the urgent questions of our times and doesn't settle for easy answers...it is indeed Habila at his best.
Urgent, deeply empathetic, and resisting easy answers, TRAVELERS follows the interconnected lives of African immigrants and refugees in Europe and examines the meanings of freedom, diaspora and home.Habila is a masterful storyteller, and this novel a riveting testament to the power of fiction.
Describing worlds and convergences that are unforgettable, Helon Habila writes of individual lives - pulled apart by our wars, our failed states and our deepest fears - with insight and searing compassion
At once intimate and expansive,Travellerscaptivated me from the very first pages
a parable of our times and Habila tells it beautifully,shedding poignant light on the world of the dispossessed and the stateless.
Adroitlyteasing out the rich quiddity of his characters' diverse journeys, he instead makes the simple yet valuable point thatrefugees' lives are as irreducibly complex as anyone else's.
A quietly haunting novel that captures the untethered, unreal nature of migrant and refugee existence.
Yarns of persecution, paranoia, even manslaughter, unspool across its patchwork pattern.Habila tells them with cunning, flair and a sleight-of-hand that lightens even the gloomiest scenes.
In an era of mass migration, Habila suggests,stories are a common ground, a means of making ourselves at home with our homelessness.