Description
The novel, Foreign Land, is written by Jonathan Raban. It is a story of a man, George Grey, who has been living in a bunker in Africa for the past thirty years. He is now returning home to England and his daughter, who he barely knows, and a new friend, who he back in the 1960s was one of England's most famous singers. The novel is written in a witty, charming, and masterful way.
From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of
Bad Land and
Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again. For the past thirty years, George Grey has been a ship bunker in the fictional west African nation of Montedor, but now he's returning home to England-to a daughter who's a famous author he barely knows, to a peculiar new friend who back in the sixties was one of England's more famous singers, and to the long and empty days of retirement during which he's easy prey to the melancholy of memories, all the more acute since the woman he loves is still back in Africa. Witty, charming and masterly crafted,
Foreign Land is an exquisitely moving tale of awkward relationships and quiet redemption.
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