Karen Jennings is a South African writer based in Cape Town. She works in the History Department at the University of Stellenbosch, and particularly on the “Biography of an Uncharted People” project. An Island is her American debut.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A ferocious, swift chess game of a novel” (Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth) about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores—the Am...
