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Admiring Silence
African Nobel Prize winner
African writers
Author_Abdulrazak Gurnah
Black Nobel Prize winner
Bob Dylan
books about Africa
books about British empire
By the Sea
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colson Whitehead
Desertion
Dottie
East Africa
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Esi Edugyan
Gravel Heart
Half of a Yellow Sun
Homegoing
Jhumpa Lahiri
Kazuo Ishiguro
Louise Gluck
Memory of Departure
Michael Ondaatje
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize literature
Olga Togarczuk
Paradise
Pilgrims Way
Richard Flanagan
Svetlana Alexeivich
Taiye Selasi
The Last Gift
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Underground Railroad
Warlight
Washington Black
Yaa Gyasi
Product details
- ISBN 9780747557852
- Weight: 186g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002
'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times
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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 lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection.
Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. 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 2021 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 2016. He lives in Canterbury.
