The Strangers books & writers (Children's/Teenage) from the Stanford University Libraries

from the Stanford University Libraries

'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes

The written word has the power to inspire

business rival and notorious playboy

The Strangers books & writers (Children's/Teenage) from the Stanford University LibrariesRichly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home. In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from them. One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type. What kind