# The Promised Land

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- Book: [The Promised Land](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-naffis-sahely/the-promised-land) ([The Promised Land.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-naffis-sahely/the-promised-land.md))
- Authors: [André Naffis-Sahely](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-naffis-sahely)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-494-0
- Published: 2017-08-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

While half the world swept west, we trickled eastward, one by one, single-file, like fugitives. Next stop: Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job, and money, for the first time in years . . . __________________________________________________ Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day London to North America, André Naffis-Sahely's bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. 'Naffis-Sahely's poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account' DAVID HARSENT