Exile by Jakob Ejersbo - ISBN: 9780857051103
Paperback
Lost teens seek escape in a land where hope is dead.

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    30 November 2012

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Summary

For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi’s International School, it’s all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn.

Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when y…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857051103
ISBN-10:0857051105
Author:Jakob Ejersbo, Mette Petersen
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:30 November 2012
Weight:230g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 23mm
Series:The Africa Trilogy
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Critics Review

‘This fine epic of loneliness and alienation in a beautiful land that seems to be sinking shows that he was a writer of huge talent’ Kate Saunders, The Times.

‘There is more to contemporary Scandinavian fiction than thrillers’ Michael Arditti, Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *‘This fine epic of loneliness and alienation in a beautiful land that seems to be sinking shows that he was a writer of huge talent’ Kate Saunders, The Times. * The Times *‘The first part of a powerful trilogy’ Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express. * Daily Express *

About The Author

Jakob Ejersbo

Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Nordkraft, which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer.

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