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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Staggering novel of displacement and loss from the critically acclaimed author
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BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
‘Riveting and heartbreaking ……
The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in…
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The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people…
In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young…
In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a master storyteller captures young people in Tanzania in a time of dizzying global change.
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Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, 12-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf’s eyes, Gurnah…
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This edited volume provides a wide-ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah.
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An astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home by the Booker-shortlisted author of Desertion
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Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fourth novel, a beautiful story of African life.
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A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants' conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it
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‘One of the world’s most prominent postcolonial writers … He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and…
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, an astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home.
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Superb… . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to…
Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and…
"A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath…
A dazzling tale of cultural identity and displacement, this is the story of a man’s escape from his native Zanzibar to England to build a new life
Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life
A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England
The breakthrough book from the highly acclaimed author of By the Sea
With its range of expert essays and readings, detailed chronology of Salman Rushdie’s life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie…
First published in Great Britain in 2017.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON…
Unaconmovedora historia sobre el exilio, el amor y la traicion, del Premio Nobelde Literatura 2021
Huyendo de la mitica isla de Zanzibar, tierra demercaderes de perfumes y…
Una historia de iniciacion que ilumina la crudeza y la belleza de la Africa precolonial, por el premio Nobel de literatura 2021.
Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce anos…
Korean edition of [Afterlives] by Abdulrazak Gurnah. From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal…
La mas reciente novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021, inedita al espanol en varios paises.
Una conmovedora historia de amor con la guerra y el colonialismo como telon de…
Mohineet Kaur Boparai
This book is an insightful work on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction, and explores the different valences of oppression and agency, subjectivity, memory, race, gender, place, solidarity, class, and crime. It is…
Sean James Bosman
This book examines how selected works of fiction advocate for just memories and promote identities that accept ethical agency and that exercise power and control over their own lives and…
Abdulrazak Gurnah (University of Kent, Canterbury)
An astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home by the Booker-shortlisted author of Desertion.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This volume portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the Emergency in Kenya in 1952-1960. Following the village’s arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, the novel’s…
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Ali Smith,Abdulrazak Gurnah,Chris Cleave,Marina Lewycka,Jade Amoli-Jackson
Reimagined Canterbury tales
