Exile
By (Author) Jakob Ejersbo
Translated by Mette Petersen
Translated by Mette Petersen
Quercus Publishing
MacLehose Press
1st December 2012
30th August 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
839.8138
Paperback
320
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
230g
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'There is more to contemporary Scandinavian fiction than thrillers' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *
'This fine epic of loneliness and alienation in a beautiful land that seems to be sinking shows that he was a writer of huge talent' Kate Saunders, The Times. * The Times *
'The first part of a powerful trilogy' Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express. * Daily Express *
Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Nordkraft, which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer.