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Little Bee

A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

Main Author: Cleave, Chris.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Young women > Fiction.
Nigerians > England > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
Summary: A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
Item Description: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton."
Physical Description: 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781416589631
1416589635
9781416589648 (pbk.)
1416589643 (pbk.)
Author Notes: Chris Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His first novel, Incendiary, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award, and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. His second novel, Little Bee, was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Award for Best Novel. His third novel, Gold, was published in 2012.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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