num_pages: 288
description: Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.
language: English
title: A Distant Shore
titlecomplete: A Distant Shore
genres: British Literature, Mental Health, Novels, Africa, School, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 779
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall
publisher: Vintage