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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Stranger City, A
Author: GRANT LINDA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 14/05/2019
Imprint: VIRAGO
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community – and that assumes they even have a community.
A policeman,a documentary film maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships – and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The filmmaker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives – or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate – or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.
ISBN: 9780349010496
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 336