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From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage,fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speakresoundingly to the problem of race in British society.

“[A] searching meditation on outsiders in England. . . . Foreigners is written, like all Phillips’ books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs.” —Pico Iyer, Time

With his characteristicgrace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men:Francis Barber, “given” to the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson, whose friendshipwith Johnson led to his wretched demise; Randolph Turpin, a boxing champion who endedhis life in debt and decrepitude; and David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrivedin Leeds in 1949 and whose death at the hands of police twenty years later was awake up call for the entire nation. As Phillips weaves together these three stories,he illuminates the complexities of race relations and social constraints with devastatingresults.