Dottie

Seventeen-year-old Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour is raising her younger siblings in post-war England and knows almost nothing about where her family came from. Abdulrazak Gurnah, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, writes that absence as the centre of the novel. Poverty, racism and family obligation press in from every side, while a history Dottie cannot reach keeps shaping her present. Reading becomes her way through, offering both escape and the suggestion that another life is possible. The book works by accumulation and close attention rather than dramatic incident. What buyers often ask about: • A novel of family, migration and belonging set in post-war England • Written by the 2021 Nobel laureate in literature • A young woman caring for her siblings while questioning her inheritance • Literary fiction that develops through character rather than plot twists For readers of literary fiction concerned with identity, displacement and social history, available from Boipoka.