The Island of Forgetting

The Island of Forgetting
Jasmine Sealy
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Hardback
h227 x 159mm - 336pg
26 May 2022 UK
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9780008532895
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In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas' s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity. Each of them longs to escape - to go beyond the borders and circumstances that have contained them for so long - but each finds that they are trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments; and that it is dictating a future over which they have little control. With every passing decade another generation must contend with the same doubts about their identity, about their place in the small world they have carved out for themselves and the same question: how can the things we don' t know define our futures? Perfect for fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING is a powerful story of family and hope, and marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
' The Island of Forgetting is an engrossing saga of love, family and the undying past - gorgeous at the sentence level and sweeping in both depth and scope. Jasmine Sealy is one of the most exciting and powerful new voices in fiction, and with this stunning debut she has crafted a moving world of a book, polyphonic and sprinkled throughout with fire' OMAR EL AKKAD, author of What Strange Paradise
Jasmine Sealy is a British-born, Barbadian-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2017) and included in Best Canadian Stories (2021). In 2020 she won the University of British Columbia/HarperCollins Fiction Prize for this novel.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780008532895
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Borough Press
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 227mm
Width: 159mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 336

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