Exile (Africa Trilogy) (Danish and English Edition) - Softcover

Jakob Ejersbo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857050591 ISBN 13: 9780857050595

Publisher: Maclehose Press, 2011

Synopsis

Samantha has lived in Tanzania since she was three. Her parents run a travel lodge and are too absorbed by their own affairs to pay attention to their daughter. She learns quickly that affection comes at a price she is always willing to pay, however shallow and transitory the experience, however hollow the love on offer.

About this title

About the Author:

Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Northern Powers, which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer. Mette Petersen lives in Kgs Lyngby in Denmark, where she works for a literary agency and as a translator. Previous translations include My Friend Jesus Christ by Lars Husum.

Review:

'The first part of a powerful trilogy' Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express. * Daily Express * 'Exile offers a shocking insight into the state of Africa in the 1980's and the failure of Europeans to save it, or themselves, from the downward spiral' The Skinny. * Skinny * '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 Sunders, The Times. * The Times * 'Seldom has anyone written anything so insistent and impassioned, so glowing hot and ice-cold, so heartfelt and so cynical' Klaus Rothstein, Danish Literary Magazine. * Danish Literary Magazine * 'There is more to contemporary Scandinavian fiction than thrillers ... a hardcore version of an American high school rom-com, with drug-fuelled orgies replacing drugstores and the Prom' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *

About this edition

• Publisher: Maclehose Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857050591
• ISBN 13: 9780857050595
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320