Exile (The Africa Trilogy)

Exile (The Africa Trilogy)

by Mette Petersen (Translator), Mette Petersen (Translator), Jakob Ejersbo (Author)

Synopsis

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 you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 30 Aug 2012

ISBN 10: 0857051105
ISBN 13: 9780857051103

Media Reviews
'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 *
Author Bio

Jakob Ejersbo made his literary breakthough with Nordkraft, a searingly realistic novel that changed the face of Danish literature. From 1974-7 and 1983-4 he lived in Moshi in Tanzania. He died in 2008 and did not live to see the publication of The Africa Trilogy.

Mette Petersen's previous translations include My Friend Jesus Christ by Lars Husum.