Results for "Gurnah, Abdulrazak"

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”A NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS“Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ... Read More about Afterlives: A Novel

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 itOn a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small ba... Read More about By the Sea: A Novel

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 of African independenceEarly one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an Eas... Read More about Desertion: A Novel

From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization " Gurnah's novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.... Read More about Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors.... Read More about Gravel Heart: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, an astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home.Abbas has never told anyone about his past-before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a drugstore in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet li... Read More about The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature