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✦ LIBER ✦
On the Way Back
✍ Scribed by Kobbé, Montague
- Book ID
- 109115643
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781617754418
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✦ Synopsis
"Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman's fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that echo Marquez."
--Publishers Weekly on The Night of the Rambler
"Riveting, deeply thoughtful, and constantly inventive."
--Joe Meno on The Night of the Rambler
Nathaniel Jones, a middle-aged businessman from England, travels to Anguilla to spend a fortnight on holiday when he's captivated by a promising and ludicrously beautiful member of the local community, Sheila Rawlingson. After a secret, intense hundred-day courtship, Nathaniel proposes to Sheila, whose agreement to marry this Englishman is seen as a betrayal by her family and fellow Anguillans.
Recognizing the value Anguillan society places on economic projects, Nathaniel sets up roots on the island and attempts to found an ill-conceived airline business to gain the support and favor of the Rawlingsons. Nathaniel sends for...
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