Happiness
A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness. A fox makes its way across London's Water…
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- Full title :Happiness / Aminatta Forna.
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A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.
A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide: Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech but also trying to locate a missing friend caught up in an immigration sweep. From this chance encounter the two work together to find Ama, and a deepening friendship unfolds.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
The Physical Object
- Description:312 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780802127556, 080212755X, 9781408893326, 1408893320
- oclc:on1050154014
- LC Classification:PR6106.O766
- Dewey Decimal:823/.92
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