Strangers at the Port

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Giulia is ten. She has never left the tiny island she lives on. She never wants to. Her best friend on the island – besides her older sister – is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes. Her island is one filled with widows. Widows that are watched over by the Shipmaster and his many sons. It is a place that feels stuck in time – verdant, plentiful, happy, peaceful. Until the men arrive. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

‘Enchanting and haunting’
RACHEL RODDY

‘A fable for our times’
SPECTATOR

‘This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original’
LUCIE ELVEN

‘A seaside Gothic tale teeming with superstition and mistrust’
READINGS MONTHLY

Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna’s days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.

Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.

From the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.

Additional information

Weight 0.22 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 2.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

224

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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