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England
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English
Fiction
An African father who sold his children into slavery 250 years ago watches their descendants scatter across the Black Atlantic — a missionary in Africa, a slave in America, a GI's wartime companion in England.
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Booker Prize shortlist; Phillips's most formally ambitious novel; a meditation on the guilt of the Middle Passage
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editorial-summarynot primary textAn African father who sold his children into slavery 250 years ago watches their descendants scatter across the Black Atlantic — a missionary in Africa, a slave in America, a GI's wartime companion in England. Booker Prize shortlist; Phillips's most formally ambitious novel; a meditation on the guilt of the Middle Passage
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