On a holiday island somewhere in the Aegean Sea, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, fends off starvation as she survives in the aftermath of unspeakable brutality. Having escaped the horrors of Charles Taylor's regime, she builds a home of sorts in a cave overlooking the ocean. During the day, she wanders the sunny beaches offering massages to tourists, one Euro for five minutes, all the while balancing her will to live with the crushing guilt of survival.
This hypnotic, lyrical and extraordinary novel tells the story of a woman existing in the wake of experiences so horrifying that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable. It's a novel about memory. About storytelling.
About how we live with what we know. Alexander Maksik is a writer of exceptional gifts, able to deliver devastatingly powerful emotion through deceptively simple, lucid prose.
| ISBN: | 9781848548077 |
| Publication date: | 19th June 2014 |
| Author: | Alexander Maksik |
| Publisher: | John Murray Publishers Ltd an imprint of John Murray General Publishing Division |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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On a holiday island somewhere in the Aegean Sea, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, fends off starvation as she survives in the aftermath of unspeakable brutality. Having escaped the horrors of Charles Taylor's regime, she builds a home of sorts in a cave overlooking the ocean.
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A Marker to Measure Drift was written by Alexander Maksik and published by John Murray Publishers Ltd an imprint of John Murray General Publishing Division
A Marker to Measure Drift has 221 pages
