The Hopeful Traveller (Paperback)

In France, Mattie feels 20 again. In Poland, Magda revisits her impoverished family. In Uzbekistan, Diana lets a fellow tourist kiss her. In Germany, Lynn loses her luggage on the Düsseldorf train. The Hopeful Traveller is a collection of short stories about—and told by—single women who have put the past behind them but are still looking for their anchor in the present. It includes bitter-sweet accounts of the freedoms of postwar life, of foreign travel, of the rekindling of old friendships and of the search for new ones. The stories speak of cosmopolitan, self-confident, well-heeled characters, in an era just before the birth of feminism, conventional in their expectations of men, always just a step away from displacement and alienation. Set variously in Paris, Kalisz, Samarkand, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Erfurt, Singapore and London, these stories, from a much-admired veteran writer, offer a teasing mix of realism and fantasy, wish-fulfilment and regret. Some of these stories have appeared in translation in overseas annuals and collections.

General

Imprint:	EnvelopeBooks
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Janina David
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-83817-205-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-83817-205-X
Barcode:	9781838172053

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