The Promised Land

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book_author_name: 
Andre Naffis-Sahely
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Paperback
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Penguin Books Ltd
published_date: 
03/08/2017
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9780141984933
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Andre Naffis-Sahely|Paperback|Penguin Books Ltd|03/08/2017
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9780141984933
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While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .__________________________________________________Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day London to North America, Andre Naffis-Sahely's bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. 'Naffis-Sahely's poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account'DAVID HARSENT

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