Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide.
Attila, a
Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of
urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a
great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave,
bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two
tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the
daughter of friends, his 'niece', Ama, who hasn't called home in a
while.
It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an
immigration crackdown - and now her young son Tano is missing. When, by
chance, Attila bumps into Jean again, she joins him in his search for
Tano, mobilizing into action the network she has built up, mainly from
the many West African immigrants working London's myriad streets, of
volunteer fox-spotters: security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens.
All unite to help and as the search continues, a deepening friendship
between Attila and Jean unfolds.
In this delicate yet powerful
novel of loves lost and new, of past griefs and of the hidden side of a
teeming metropolis, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the values of
the society we live in, our co-existence with one another and all living
creatures - and the true nature of happiness.
Happiness - Aminatta Forna
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