Colony (Paperback) - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Depository [54837791], Slough, United Kingdom.
Language: English Brand New Book. From the author of the existential thriller The Execution comes Colony , a novel set in French Guiana as the age of Empire draws to a close and anarchy beckons. The year is 1928. Sabir - petty criminal, drifter, war veteran - is on a prison ship bound for a notorious penal colony in the French tropics. Soon after his arrival in the bagne, as it s known, Sabir is shipped out to a work camp deep in the South American jungle but quickly comes to the realisation that his old life is dead, and return to France an impossibility. Yet, if he s to survive at all, he must escape the brutality of the bagne. Posing as a professional gardener, Sabir wins the confidence and protection of the camp s naive, idealistic Commandant. With a group of like-minded convicts - including the secretive, enigmatic Edouard, a comrade from the trenches of WW1 - he soon launches his escape bid, across the seas in a stolen boat. Bad weather forces the men ashore, condemning them to a dismal, hallucinatory tramp through the jungle. As hunger and rivalry tear the group apart, Sabir understands he has scant chance of escaping into another life. In Part Two, Manne - deserter, itinerant exile - comes to the Colony in search of his deported friend, the same Edouard from Part One. With a false identity and cover story, Manne installs himself as a guest at the Commandant s house. There, he falls into an affair with his host s wife. Meanwhile, the Commandant is slowly unravelling, growing ever more suspicious of who Manne is and what he s doing in the Colony. Manne ends up trapped like everyone else in the bagne, and realises that he too must escape. The novel s two plot threads begin to merge - boundaries between dream and reality blur, bringing a surreal tinge to the dramatic climax. Both a page-turning adventure story, and a bold novel of ideas, Colony takes an historical background familiar to readers of Henri Charriere s Papillon , and twists it into a metaphysical journey. Brilliantly evoking an atmosphere of colonial decline in the tropics, the novel explores the shifting natures of identity, memory and reality.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BetterWorldBooksUK.
The year is 1928, and Sabir—petty criminal, drifter, war veteran—is on a prison ship, bound for a notorious penal settlement in the French tropics. On his arrival, he is sent out to a work camp deep in the South American rain forest. There, he wins the confidence of the camp's idealistic commandant, who sets him the task of carving a landscaped garden out of the surrounding wilderness. At the same time, Sabir plans his getaway with a band of like-minded convicts, through the jungle and across the ocean on a stolen boat. His only hope, he realizes, is to become someone else entirely. Evoking an atmosphere of colonial decay, the novel explores the ever-shifting boundaries between identity, memory, and reality., Paperback, Label: HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins UK, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-04-01, Studio: HarperCollins UK, Verkaufsrang: 4107668.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books and More by The Rowe [3328518], Bella Vista, AR, U.S.A.
Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 336 Pages. 7.72 in l x 4.88 in w x .94 in h. .53 lb.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, WORLDWIDE BOOKS [52580588], County Durham, A., United Kingdom.
An EX LIBRARY copy complete with protective cover and in VERY GOOD condition.May have some library identification marks/stamps. Daily dispatch from UK warehouse. This book is in VERY GOOD overall condition, showing only light signs of previous ownership.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Book Deals [60506629], Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.
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