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FOREIGN LAND
JONATHAN RABAN
George Grey has been abroad for forty years. He returns home nursing a vision of an England that has vanished in his absence. His native country appears to him a cold, hostile, and almost friendless wasteland and his homecoming from a warm, comfortable life in Africa is a nightmare. George can make neither head nor tail of his daughter, the last remnant of his family, nor she of him. He is immediately restless in his retirement and at once plans his escape - not for the first time in his life - in his own boat to the sea.
'A superbly written book... few contemporary writers can have evoked so powerfully the temper and texture of the ocean.'
- SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'There is no contesting the book's seriousness. Its savage vision and its dire conclusions... the writing often stings like spray in the face.'
- LONDON MAGAZINE
'Raban's writing is a delight. He phrases every nuance with high skill. With his eloquence stimulating his characters into surprising us at every turn, he travels resonandy into unfamiliar aspects of the land we think we know best.'
- MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Full of memorable writing... as generously imagined, witty and astonishing as its main character, a modern, English, retired Huck Finn-at-heart.'
- KIRKUS REVIEWS
'A brilliandy written, mournfully suggestive piece of fiction...'
- LITERARY REVIEW
'Beautifully written, expertly constructed, funny, full of good characters and inventive situations.'
- DAILY TELEGRAPH
'This is a rich, inventive narrative, held together by a net of resonant, yet discreet symbols, brilliandy comic at times, and so full of good stuff as to make most other novels look undernourished and etiolated.'
- TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Jonathan Raban's achievements are nothing short of awesome.'
- WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
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Джордж Грей е в чужбина от четиридесет години. Той се завръща у дома, гледайки визия за Англия, която е изчезнала в негово отсъствие. Родната му страна му се струва студена, враждебна и почти безприятелска пустош, а завръщането му от топъл и комфортен живот в Африка е кошмар. Джордж не може да направи нито глава, нито опашка дъщеря си, последният остатък от семейството му, нито тя него. Той веднага се чувства неспокоен в пенсионирането си и веднага планира бягството си - не за първи път в живота си - със собствената си лодка до морето.
