Thirteen stories by the author of the critically acclaimed "The Genizah at the House of Shepher" address universal themes of yearning and displacement, love, loss and the struggle to belong. A latter day Jewish Odysseus spends his life planning an intricate journey to the Promised Land, while an English father stranded in London mourns for his faraway Italian son. A man without a past searches the world for potential relatives; while in the title story, a Jew and a Muslim cast adrift in a Yorkshire landscape find momentary sisterhood over a copy of the Koran. Blending irony with pathos, the mythical with the mundane, "Kafka in Bronteland" gives voice to a rich mix of characters living outside traditional patterns of identity, in a world of complex migrations and tumultuous change.
- ISBN:
- 9781592641536
- 9781592641536
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Publication Date:
- 01-03-2006
- Publisher:
- Toby Press Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 250
- Dimensions (mm):
- 210x140x10mm
- Weight:
- 0.2kg
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