Brixton Beach - Softcover

Tearne, Roma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910709476 ISBN 13: 9781910709474

Verlag: Aardvark Bureau, 2018

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Heartfelt and timely CHRIS CLEAVE, New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven When family tragedy strikes, Alice Fonseka, the dreamy, artistic child of a Singhalese mother and Tamil father, leaves the beautiful island of Sri Lanka. Unable to bear the injustice of what has happened, her family heads for England.There, in a totally foreign environment, Alice builds a life for herself and finds outlets for her art. But she remains restless, haunted by memories of the past, and, even in London, the threat of violence is never far away.

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Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born, Oxford-based artist, film-maker and writer. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK. Her debut novel, Mosquito, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards First Novel prize and the LA Times First Fiction Prize. The Swimmer was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011 and Asian Man Booker in 2012.

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• Verlag: Aardvark Bureau
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1910709476
• ISBN 13: 9781910709474
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 429
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