The Resource Travelers : a novel, Helon Habila
Travelers : a novel, Helon Habila
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- Summary
- Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision...a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: "I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar." In Berlin, Habila's central character finds himself thrown into contact with a community of African immigrants and refugees whose lives previously seemed distant from his own, but to which he is increasingly drawn. The walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of these other Africans on the move soon crumble, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve as he finds that he can no longer separate himself from others' horrors, or from Africa. A lean, expansive, heart-rending exploration of loss and of connection, Travelers inscribes unforgettable signposts--both unsettling and luminous--marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393239591
- Label
- Travelers : a novel
- Title
- Travelers
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Helon Habila
- Subject
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- trueAfricans in Europe
- Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction
- trueBerlin, Germany
- trueEurope
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueImmigrants
- trueAfrican diaspora
- Africans -- Germany -- Berlin | Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMarried men
- trueMoving to a new country
- trueRefugees
- Refugees -- Germany | Berlin -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Germany | Berlin -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision...a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. A Nigerian graduate student who has made his home in America knows what it means to strike out for new shores. When his wife proposes that he accompany her to Berlin, where she has been awarded a prestigious arts fellowship, he has his reservations: "I knew every departure is a death, every return a rebirth. Most changes happen unplanned, and they always leave a scar." In Berlin, Habila's central character finds himself thrown into contact with a community of African immigrants and refugees whose lives previously seemed distant from his own, but to which he is increasingly drawn. The walls between his privileged, secure existence and the stories of these other Africans on the move soon crumble, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve as he finds that he can no longer separate himself from others' horrors, or from Africa. A lean, expansive, heart-rending exploration of loss and of connection, Travelers inscribes unforgettable signposts--both unsettling and luminous--marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10781466
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Habila, Helon
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Africans
- Immigrants
- Refugees
- Identity (Psychology)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Label
- Travelers : a novel, Helon Habila
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393239591
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2018059858
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1103323562
- Label
- Travelers : a novel, Helon Habila
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393239591
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2018059858
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1103323562
Subject
- trueAfricans in Europe
- Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction
- trueBerlin, Germany
- trueEurope
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueImmigrants
- trueAfrican diaspora
- Africans -- Germany -- Berlin | Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMarried men
- trueMoving to a new country
- trueRefugees
- Refugees -- Germany | Berlin -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Germany | Berlin -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
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