# A Distant Shore

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- Book: [A Distant Shore](https://www.bookquiver.com/caryl-phillips/a-distant-shore) ([A Distant Shore.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/caryl-phillips/a-distant-shore.md))
- Authors: [Caryl Phillips](https://www.bookquiver.com/caryl-phillips)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-450-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2005-03-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love....