"Samuel has lived alone for a long time, with only the occasional visits from a boat bringing supplies and, in the past, a government representative from the mainland.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE 'Moving, transfixing' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES 'Absorbing...powerful' Catherine Taylor, GUARDIAN A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old ...
An Island: A Novel
A gripping, terrifying and unforgettable story.’ Elleke Boehmer 'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world... a moving, transfixing novel of loss, ...
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his ...
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “beautifully and sparingly constructed” (The New York Times) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his ...
... should : It compels the reader to read on and on until the end , and then to restart once more . " 59 -RÉMY NGAMIJE , author of The Eternal Audience of One ALSO BY KAREN JENNINGS Finding Soutbek Upturned Earth An Island.