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Fa e Caryl Phillips = ‘oreigners ty " Three ee Lives inp i ae - . oh OX te Me1 ie: > , * . Peg! . ‘ LA a -e bit \* x > Woef 5 Wt” . 8 oy “3 es Va, Sin ON ue ? sities os ic . an By, \ : ¥ ’ ie Po v4 vs : ’ | a * , . -\ f me ay s, ra;* a 9r e) ‘ ‘ } . a ee. . \ a ’ y ae aeey ’ : ’ ‘ F a. a ee mi‘ ‘ NS 4 From ‘one of the literary giants of our times’ (-N ew York Ti.m es), a bri. lli. ant hybri.d of reportage, fiction and historical fact that tells e stories of three black men whose tragic lives speaki resoundingly to the place and role of the igner in English society. rancis Barber, ‘given’ to the great eighteenth- century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson’s death, would help hasten his wretched nise...Randolph Turpin, Britain’s first black oY ee di | world champion boxer, who made history in adil by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and a who ended his life in debt and despair...David Oluwale, aN igerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice, and whose death at the hands of police in 1969 served as a wake-up call for the entire nation. Each of these men’s stories is told in a different, perfectly realised voice. Each illuminates the complexity and drama that lie behind the simple notions of haplessness that have been used to explain the tragedy of their lives. And each explores, in entirely new ways, the themes — at once timeless and urgent — that have been at the heart of all of Caryl Phillips’ work: belonging, reConlatamntnreminceer Foreigners is among his most powerful, empathic unto mmor wed colenbvel hametac ereanlv om erete) asp £16.99 HHA Leabharlanna Fhine Gall BLANCHARDSTOWN LIBRARY Inv/ oe Price ¢€ Title: Frore leas ERS Class: Oey | [E44 2 LEABHARLANNA CHONTAE FHINE GALL FINGAL COUNTY LIBRARIES 3lanchardstown Library | Items should be returned on or before the last date shown below. Items may be renewed by personal application, writing, telephone or by accessing the online Catalogue Service on Fingal Libraries’ website. To renew give date due, borrower ticket number and PIN number if using online catalogue. Fines are charged on overdue items and will include postage incurred in recovery. Damage to, or loss of items will be charged to the borrower. Date Due Date Due Date Due 20 ig a A Ma) De + Se Wea t? j i { ) Sm i ‘ 3e t 7 > adh “is te . a er } iee s wat tes F ab a 4 ’ + Also by Caryl Phillips Dancing in the Dark A Distant Shore A New World Order The Atlantic Sound The Nature of Blood Crossing the River Cambridge Higher Ground The European Tribe A State of Independence The Final Passage FOREIGNERS Lae er LLL Harvill Secker LONDON Published by Harvill Secker 2007 2468109753 Copyright © Caryl Phillips 2007 Caryl Phillips has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser First published in Great Britain in 2007 by HARVILL SECKER Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SWIV 2SA www.tbooks.co.uk Addresses for companies within The Random House Group Limited can be found at: www.randomhouse.co.uk/offices.htm The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 9780436205972 The Random House Group Limited makes every effort to ensure that the papers used in its books are made from trees that have been legally sourced from well-managed and credibly certified forests. Our Paper procurement policy can be found at: www.randomhouse.co.uk/ paper.htm Typeset by Palimpsest Book ‘Production Limited, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Ltd, Beccles, Suffolk For Omar and Jamal \ =o)
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