Peter Carty

Kindness backfires: Sufferance, by Charles Palliser, reviewed

When the father of a family takes in a lost young girl from a minority ethnic group, he puts his own household at risk as racial persecution mounts

Chales Palliser. [Credit: Michael Jershova]
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  • Sufferance

    Charles Palliser

    Guernica Editions, pp. 175, £16

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