Description
A young woman’s life is upended by loss, leaving her to navigate a precarious world while caring for siblings who depend on her. As she pieces together fragments of her family history—shaped by migration, exploitation, and the long aftershocks of injustice—she confronts how race and gender can determine who is believed, protected, or punished. Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel traces her movement toward selfhood through hard choices, moral responsibility, and the quiet resilience required to build a future on uncertain ground. With echoes of Dickensian social observation, the story explores identity, inheritance, and the complexity of multi-racial societies—insisting that survival and dignity are acts of authorship, not fate.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published Jan 1, 2016
351 pages
ISBN: 9781408885659
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Details
First Published
1990
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah.