num_pages: 352
description: India, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist England's colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right to be both black and British. Their secret devotion to each other takes them across India in a terrifying, deadly race against time and tradition. This powerful and erotic love story combines the themes of colonial exploitation, political and ethnic tensions, race and sexuality, and the many forms of partition, both secular and religious, that endanger our world.
language: English
title: A Black Englishman
titlecomplete: A Black Englishman
genres: British Literature, Historical, India, Asia, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 411
places: India
publisher: Picador