''A Distant Shore'' is the seventh novel by Black British author

Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist. Best known for his novels (for which he has won multiple awards), Phillips is often described as a Black Atlantic writer, since much of his fictional ...

, published in 2003 by

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in the UK and

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in the US. It was a finalist for the 2003

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."A Distant Shore" page
at author's website. In the 2004

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it won the Best Book Prize in the Europe and South Asia category and was judged that year's overall Best Book. Set in contemporary England, ''A Distant Shore'' is the story of an African man and an English woman "whose hidden lives, and worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection". As the author has stated: "It is obviously a novel about the challenged identity of two individuals, but it's also a novel about English—or national—identity."Jill Morrison (2004)
"A Conversation with Caryl Phillips"
in ''Conversations with Caryl Phillips'', University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 135.

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* Natasha Walter
"The sadness of strangers" (review)
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'', 15 March 2003. * Rand Richards Cooper
"There's No Place That's Home"
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'', 19 October 2003. 2003 British novels English novels Secker & Warburg books PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works {{2000s-novel-stub

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