Desertion

Title:

Desertion

Author:

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- author.

Summary:

Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali’s sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affair bursts into flame, with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences. In this devastating and ingeniously spun tale, the Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatizes the personal and political legacies of colonialism. -- Amazon.

General Note:

First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, in 2005.

First United States edition published in hardcover by Pantheon, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2005.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Physical Description:

388 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Large type books.

Historical fiction.

Romance fiction.

Subject Term:

British -- Kenya -- Fiction.

Travel writers -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.