Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Full Name: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah, born 20 December 1948 is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent. His novels include Paradise, which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize, By the Sea, which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and awarded the RFI Temoin du Monde Prize, and Desertion, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
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Demoralised by small persecutions and the poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invests a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters.
His greatest so;ace is c...
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Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. The arrival of Independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelli...
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Abbas has never told anyone about his past—before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that ...
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Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is ...
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On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furnitur...
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'From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah.'
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by German colonial troops. After years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone and his sister Afi...
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