Travellers : a novel / Helon Habila.
Publication details: London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.Edition: First editionDescription: x, 295 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780241394502 (hardback)
- Travelers
- Africans -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction
- Africans
- Identity (Psychology)
- Immigrants
- Refugees
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Africans -- Fiction
- Germany -- Berlin
- Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | HAB | Available | 069554 |
First published in the United States of America by W.W. Norton and Company 2019.
Book 1. One year in Berlin -- Book 2. Checkpoint Charlie -- Book 3. Basel -- Book 4. The interpreters -- Book 5. The sea -- Book 6. Hunger.
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 tenuous, 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.
