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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Strangers at the Port
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'Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, apart from her older sister Giovanna, is a donkey. Giulia and Giovanna's days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.

'Until the men arrive. And a foreign yacht anchors at the port. And the vines begin to fail. And everything changes.

'From the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Weidenfeld and Nicolson ,
      2023 .
      image of person or book cover 6673417617592403226.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      Reprinted: 2024
      ISBN: 9781399608183 (pbk), 9781399608176 (trade pbk), 9781399608169 (hbk), 9781399608190 (ebk)
Form: audiobook
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Weidenfeld and Nicolson ,
      2023 .
      image of person or book cover 4405547933402015890.jpg
      This image has been sourced from the publisher's website
      Extent: 4 hours and 13 min.p.
      Description: Audio download
      Note/s:
      • Released 

        3 August 2023

      ISBN: 9781399608206 (Audio download)

Works about this Work

The Voyage Out Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 83 no. 4 2024;

— Review of Strangers at the Port Lauren Aimee Curtis , 2023 single work novel
'The horizon line belongs to the meeting point between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the sky. Wood smoke moves through branches, chalky rock crumbles underfoot, brine and salt scent the breeze. Churning up currents, the well-known winds of the region sweep through caper bushes and carob trees to the valley, over which grapevines grow in abundance along with prickly pears.' (Introduction) 
The Voyage Out Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 83 no. 4 2024;

— Review of Strangers at the Port Lauren Aimee Curtis , 2023 single work novel
'The horizon line belongs to the meeting point between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the sky. Wood smoke moves through branches, chalky rock crumbles underfoot, brine and salt scent the breeze. Churning up currents, the well-known winds of the region sweep through caper bushes and carob trees to the valley, over which grapevines grow in abundance along with prickly pears.' (Introduction) 
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