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Overland Yasmin Cordery Khan

Overland By Yasmin Cordery Khan

Overland by Yasmin Cordery Khan


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Overland by Yasmin Cordery Khan

'Brilliant... a biting critique of the orientalist, gender and class attitudes that shape Britain today. I loved it.' Preti Taneja It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: the open road, London to Kathmandu, just three young people looking for adventure. No one could have predicted the way it ended, and for fifty years the truth has been buried. But now, Joyce is ready to tell her story. London, 1970. Fresh out of a dead-end job, Joyce answers an ad in the local paper: Kathmandu by van, leave August. Share petrol and costs. Joyce is desperate to escape life in suburbia, and aristocrat Freddie looks like he can show her a wild time. Together with Anton, Freddies best friend from boarding school, they embark on the overland trail from London to Kathmandu in a beaten-up old Land Rover. But as they cross the borders into Asia, Freddie cant outrun his familys history, leading to devastating consequences for everyone. Overland is a novel about youth, privilege, class and the sharp echoes of British imperialism from one of the most exciting new voices in literary fiction.

Overland Reviews

'Overland is a brilliant domestic tragedy played out along the dangerous thrills of the grand trunk road, and a biting critique of the orientalist, gender and class attitudes that shape Britain today. I loved it.' -- Preti Taneja
'A road-trip novel to end all road-trip novels... so wise about the beautiful dream that is youth and so honest about what happens when the dream ends.' * Junot Diaz *

About Yasmin Cordery Khan

Yasmin Cordery Khan is an historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the novel Edgware Road as well as two works of non fiction: The Great Partition (for which she won the Gladstone Prize for History) and The Rah at War. She has written for the Guardian and the Observer.

Additional information

GOR013781681
9781801107389
1801107386
Overland by Yasmin Cordery Khan
Used - Like New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2024-07-04
272
N/A
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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