288 pages
English language
Published July 17, 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
288 pages
English language
Published July 17, 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
"Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--