Travellers

Shortlisted for the 2020 James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Modern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls: among them a Nigerian American couple on a prestigious arts fellowship, a transgender film student seeking the freedom of authenticity, a Libyan doctor who lost his wife and child in the waters of the Mediterranean, and a Somalian shopkeeper trying to save his young daughter from forced marriage. And, though the divide between the self-chosen exiles and those who are forced to leave home may feel solid, in reality such boundaries are endlessly shifting and frighteningly soluble.

Moving from a Berlin nightclub to a Sicilian refugee camp to the London apartment of a Malawian poet, Helon Habila evokes a rich mosaic of migrant experiences. And through his characters’ interconnecting fates, he traces the extraordinary pilgrimages we all might make in pursuit of home.

BOOK INFORMATION

AUTHOR: Helon Habila

ISBN: 978-978-974-192-2

GENRE(S): Literary Fiction

FORMAT: Paperback

NUMBER OF PAGES: 295

PUBLICATION DATE:  15 October 2019

PUBLISHER: Ouida Books

IMPRINT: Ouida