Exile / Jakob Ejersbo ; translated from the Danish by Mette Petersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ejersbo, Jakob, 1968-2008.

Contributor:

Petersen, Mette.

Flora Haney Fund.

Series:

Ejersbo, Jakob, 1968-2008. Africa trilogy ; book 1.

Africa trilogy ; book 1

Standardized Title:

Eksil. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Tanzania--Fiction.

Tanzania.

Genre:

Fiction.

Danish fiction -- Translations into English.

Novels.

Physical Description:

334 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : MacLehose Press, 2011.

Language Note:

Translated from the Danish.

Summary:

For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere? Exile is the first of three powerful novels about growing up as an ex-pat in Tanzania. Ejersbo's first novel, Nordkraft, the Danish Trainspotting, was a phenomenal bestseller. Ejersbo's trilogy, only published after his death in 2008, has proved to be another cult and critical sensation.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9780857050595

0857050591

OCLC:

751741248