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Jimfish

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Jimfish

By Christopher Hope

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About the book

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict:'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who ...Show more

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ISBN

9780857898074

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Jimfish

Format

Paperback

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