Brixton Beach (eBook)

Roma Tearne (Autor)

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2025
432 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-470-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 fi nds 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.

Autor

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born novelist and filmmaker whose books include Bone China and Mosquito. She has been short-listed for the Costa, the Kirimaya, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize and the Asian Man Booker.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: acclaimed author • Andrea Levy • Art and Literature • Contemporary fiction • Cross-Cultural Experiences • cultural heritage • diaspora stories • emotional depth • emotional narrative • Hanif Kureishi • historical fiction • Human Rights • Identity • Immigrant Experience • literary awards • literary fiction • Modern prose • Mohsin Hamid • Monica Ali • multicultural literature • painterly prose • personal stories • Refugee crisis • Resilience • social issues • Sri Lanka civil war • terrorism • Thematic Exploration • war and peace • women's rights • Yaa Gyasi • Zadie Smith
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-470-0 / 1805334700
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-470-5 / 9781805334705