Émigré Journeys
| Author: |
Abdullah Hussein |
| Publisher: |
Serpent's Tail |
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As a young man in the early 1960’s, Amir leaves his small village in Pakistan to make his way in the world. He comes to Britain, an exotic, hostile, cold land as an illegal alien. He embarks on a life of dodgy jobs, cheap housing and rip-off landlords, of grevious letters home and endless dreams of belonging.
Thirty years on, Amir now has a home and a family, including Parvin, his nineteen-year old second-generation daughter. Parvin has a mind of her own, a voice of her own. She answers back, she refuses to do as her father says.
As Amir and parvin battle it out, Amir remembers his early days in Birmingham, specifically a brutal crime of passion which profoundly altered the course of his life.
From the leading novelist in the Urdu language, ‘émigré journeys’ is a powerful novel of struggle, alienation and hope: a poignant comedy of outsiders caught between two worlds and seeking an identity.
‘A wonderful storyteller’-Literary Review
| DesiStore # |
PBS00856 |
| ISBN |
1-85242-638-1 |
| Edition |
First |
| Year |
2000 |
| Pages |
250 |
| Weight (kg) |
0.30 |
| Shipping Weight (lbs) |
0.76 |
| HB/PB |
Paper Back |
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Émigré Journeys
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