Leila
  • Published:
    Aug-2007
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    272
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Robin Jenkins returned to the Far East in the 1950s for "Leila", a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politician. Leila is, like her father, implicated in the revolutionary tremors shaking the small country and the lovers are soon torn between the small-minded mores of the expatriate community and Leila's determined efforts to play a role in her country's future. The masked oppression of the regime forms the backdrop to a novel where personal dramas collide with the legacies of colonialism.
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    • Aug-2007
    • Polygon
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1846970164
    • ISBN13: 9781846970160
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    • Jan-1995
    • Polygon
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0748662049
    • ISBN13: 9780748662043
    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • Casemate Publishers
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0857901559
    • ISBN13: 9780857901552



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