An Island, Karen Jennings antiquarian What did they add up

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an author and journalist

and on the way up he acquires a beautiful wife and children

In the book

An Island, Karen Jennings antiquarian What did they add upLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores the American debut of a major voice in world literature. Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of