A Distant Shore (novel) explained

A Distant Shore is the seventh novel by Black British author Caryl Phillips, published in 2003 by Secker & Warburg in the UK and Knopf in the US. It was a finalist for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award.[1] In the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize it won the Best Book Prize in the Europe and South Asia category and was judged that year's overall Best Book.

Set in contemporary England, A Distant Shore is the story of an African man and an English woman "whose hidden lives, and worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection". As the author has stated: "It is obviously a novel about the challenged identity of two individuals, but it's also a novel about English—or national—identity."[2]

Reception

Upon release, A Distant Shore was generally well-received among British press. [3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.carylphillips.com/a-distant-shore.html "A Distant Shore" page
  2. Jill Morrison (2004), "A Conversation with Caryl Phillips", in Conversations with Caryl Phillips, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 135.
  3. News: Books of the moment: What the papers say. 19 July 2024 . The Daily Telegraph . 29 Mar 2003. 166.