Desertion
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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 9780747578956
- Weight: 196g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2006
- 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**
'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us' Sunday Times
'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro' Guardian
'An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss' Daily Telegraph
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Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali's sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated.
In this crumbling town on the edge of civilised life, with the empire on the brink of a new century, a passionate love affair begins that brings two cultures together and which will reverberate through three generations and across continents.
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.
