Admiring Silence: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Admiring Silence: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 March 2022
Pages
272
ISBN
9781526653451

Admiring Silence: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**

‘There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator’s voice’ Financial Times

‘I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home’ Independent on Sunday _____________________

He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.

Things do not happen quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family.

Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.

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