Description
A restless young teacher leaves behind the security of home to pursue an itinerant life across Africa, Asia, and the Soviet Union, moving through classrooms, trains, embassies, and fleeting romances. As he observes unfamiliar cultures and records the people he encounters, his travels become entangled with desire, loneliness, privilege, and the uneasy search for identity. Told with sharp psychological insight and vividly detailed travel writing, the novel explores the gap between the self we present to the world and the private history we carry within us. It is an incisive portrait of wanderlust—and of the moral and emotional costs of living as a perpetual outsider.
Available Editions
paperback
Fawcett Columbine
Published Jan 1, 1996
511 pages
ISBN: 9780449912003
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Details
First Published
1989
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for My Secret History by Paul Theroux.