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A Distant Shore

Published
Oct 2003
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Literary Literary
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320

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Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting point: her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.

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Apr 2004 Vintage (UK) ISBN 0099428881
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Mar 2005 Vintage ISBN 1400034507
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First Edition Oct 2003 Knopf ISBN 1400041090
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Aug 2003 Secker & Warburg ISBN 0436205645
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Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN 0307424324
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Dec 2007 Vintage ISBN B000XUDFUE
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Aug 2012 Audible Studios ISBN B008UA88AQ
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