Diego Garcia : a novel
Soobramanien, Natasha2022
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August 2014. Two friends, writers Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, arrive in Edinburgh from London, the city that killed Daniel - his brother, her frenemy, loved by them both. Every day is different but the same. Trying to get to the library, they get distracted by bickering - will it rain or not and what should they do about their tanking bitcoin? - in the end failing to write or resist the sadness which follows them as they drift around the city. On such a day they meet Diego, a poet. They learn that Diego's mother was from the Chagos Archipelago, that she and her community were forced to leave their ancestral islands by soldiers in 1973 to make way for a military base. They become obsessed with this notorious episode in British history and the continuing resistance of the Chagossian people, and feel urged to write in solidarity. But how to share a story that is not theirs to tell?
Main title:
Diego Garcia : a novel / Natasha Soobramanien.
Author:
Soobramanien, Natasha, author
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781913097936 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
495529
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