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Liberty

Jakob Ejersbo

Two young men from very different backgrounds.

Christian is the son of Danish ex-pats; Marcus works as a house boy for a Swedish family, hoping they will eventually take him back to Europe with them.

Their friendship defines a divided continent.

When they decide to go into business together - a teenage dream of playing at discos - they unwittingly set a collision course. But will it be love or money that tears the two apart?

Spanning a decade from the dawn of the 1980s, the story of Marcus and Christian's dissolving friendship plays out amid a vast cast of characters, all fighting to make their way in a country defined by corruption. As the Tanzanian authorities and European aid agencies compete to line their own pockets, the rise of 'the disease' threatens to lay waste to an already stricken continent.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : AUG 6, 2014
  • Imprint : MacLehose Press
  • Page Extent : 736
  • Binding : TPB
  • ISBN : 9780857051288
  • Price : INR 1,050
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Jakob Ejersbo

Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Northern Powers which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty after a ten-month battle with cancer.

Mette Petersen lives in Kgs Lyngby in Denmark where she works for a literary agency and as a translator. Previous translations include My Friend Jesus Christ by Lars Husum.

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