Borderlines
Wrong, Michela, 1961-2016
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British lawyer Paula Shackleton is mourning a lost love when a small man in a lemon-coloured suit accosts her over breakfast in a Boston hotel. Winston Peabody represents the African state of North Darrar, embroiled in a border arbitration case with its giant neighbour. He needs help with the hearings in The Hague, Paula needs to forget the past. She flies to the state's capital determined to lose herself in work, but soon discovers that even jobs taken with the purest intentions can involve moral compromise. Taking testimony in scorching refugee camps, delving into the colonial past, she becomes increasingly uneasy about her role. Budding friendships with a scarred former rebel and an idealistic young doctor whittle away at her pose of sardonic indifference, until Paula finds herself taking a step no decent lawyer should ever contemplate.
Main title:
Borderlines / Michela Wrong.
Author:
Wrong, Michela, 1961-, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2016.London : 4th Estate, 2016.
Collation:
344 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9780008123017 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2326231