Admiring Silence
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Hamish Hamilton, 1996, 0-241-00184-6, £16, hb; New Press, 1996, 1-56584-349-5, $19.95, hb
England itself is the main character in this painfully honest novel about the difficulties of being an immigrant and the impossibility of being anything but a foreigner in a country one has adopted as one's own. "Sometimes I think that what I feel for England is disappointed love."
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