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      The Disappearance

      by David Dabydeen
      Published
      Aug 2005
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      180
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      This novel that echoes the styles of Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul follows a young Guyanese engineer appointed to help save and shore up a Kent coastal village's sea defenses, and his relationship with the old woman with whom he lodges. Learning more about the village's history through his relationship with Mrs. Rutherford, the narrator discovers that underlying the village's Englishness is a latent violence that echoes the imperial past, forcing him to not only reconsider his perceptions of himself and his native Guyana, but also to examine the connection between land and memory.

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      Aug 2005 Peepal Tree Press ISBN13 9781845230142 ISBN10 1845230140
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      Jan 1993 Secker & Warburg ISBN13 9780436201257 ISBN10 0436201259
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