| Exile Contributor(s): Ireland, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550024000 ISBN-13: 9781550024005 Publisher: Dundurn Press OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: For Carlos Romero Estevez, freedom from danger means a life in exile. Rescued from his home in a Latin American military dictatorship -- where his writings have been banned and he is wanted by the state -- the poet and journalist is brought to a new home in Vancouver. His rescuers, a group devoted to helping oppressed writers, think they've found a hero, a poster-boy. Carlos thinks he's found a new life, new freedom, and new, powerful friends. But soon everyone's illusions are dispelled, and Carlos finds life in exile to be a new kind of prison. His arranged job as a writer-in-residence at the university fails to produce the expected best-selling memoir. And Carlos begins to realise that his powerful new friends are simply unable to give him the kind of life he knew before his imprisonment, when he associated with the elite writers of his nation -- as well as notorious revolutionaries. In prose that is at once delicate and passionate, Ann Ireland's Exile is the work of an author in full control of her considerable talents. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002503046 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.76" W x 8.8" (1.30 lbs) 300 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the 2002 Roger Writers' Trust Fiction Prize |
Contributor Bio(s): Ireland, Ann: - Ann Ireland was the author of A Certain Mr. Takahashi (winner of the Seal First Novel Award), and Exile (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize). The first edition of her novel The Instructor was a finalist for the Ontario Trillium Award. |