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Paradise
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Bloomsbury Publishing
| Author:
Abdulrazak Gurnah
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author:
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Language:
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Format:
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By the winner of the 221 Nobel Prize in LiteratureA BBC RADIO 4 Book at Bedtime SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE_______________________’A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown’ Independent on Sunday’Gurnah evokes his world in poetic prose which is pure and lucid – a small paradise in itself … The pleasures, sadnesses and losses in all the shining facets of this book are lingering and exquisite’ Guardian’An obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved’ Sunday Times_______________________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 that his ‘uncle’ is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father’s debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy’s coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
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By the winner of the 221 Nobel Prize in LiteratureA BBC RADIO 4 Book at Bedtime SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE_______________________’A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown’ Independent on Sunday’Gurnah evokes his world in poetic prose which is pure and lucid – a small paradise in itself … The pleasures, sadnesses and losses in all the shining facets of this book are lingering and exquisite’ Guardian’An obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved’ Sunday Times_______________________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 that his ‘uncle’ is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father’s debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy’s coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
About Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 221. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 221 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 216. He lives in Canterbury.
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