Narúšajúci sa kultúru identity a displacementu, je to story človeka úniku z jeho rodného Zanzibaru do Anglicka do budovy nového života. he will probably never return, and yet the sen študovať v Anglicku matters nad that. Things do not happen quite as imagined - škola kde teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. Ale tam je Emma, krásna, rebellious Emma, ktorá jazdí smerom od bielych, middle-class roots, aby sa him láska a medveď him a dieťa. And in return he spins stories of jeho domov a keeps hier a secret z jeho rodiny. Dvadsať rokov posledný, keď barriers na poslednom chodí v Zanzibare, je to dobre a rozbalený dopredu. What he discovers there, v a story potent s truth, bude znižovať entire vision of his life. Review I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad o loss of home, impossible longing to belong to date. Ide o krásnu sardínsku eloquenciu do tohto unnamed narrator's voice, a hravé humor a hrúbka self-pity, ktoré charakterizujú jeho narrative a sú úplne konvinuálne. bitterly satirical insight-Sunday Times 'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times 'I don't think I've ever read a novela that is so convincingly a hauntingly sad o loss