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ANCESTORS

Graham Holderness

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Editorial:
Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
Año de edición:
2022
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781913087821

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This highly original novel by the internationally acclaimed author Graham Holderness is part historical novel, part contemporary chronicle, part autobiographical fiction. It explores the challenges of personal ancestry and heritage, and the contemporary loyalties of us all in a rapidly changing country. / Holderness tells the story of a typical modern intellectual, nearing the end of his career as an academic, a radical political activist and internationalist facing fundamental choices of how to live and where to belong.

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