Final Passage - Caryl Phillips

Final Passage

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2004
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-946858-5 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael and her young son with her. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.

Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.2004
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 149 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-09-946858-1 / 0099468581
ISBN-13 978-0-09-946858-5 / 9780099468585
Zustand Neuware
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