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Abdulrazak Gurnah
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african writers
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black novelists authors
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colonialism imperialism
diaspora immigration
east africa
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immigration migrant
nobel prize winner
Zanzibar Kenya

Product details

  • ISBN 9781526680143
  • Weight: 183g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa

**Selected as a book to look out for in 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and BBC**
**A Time Book of the Year 2025**

‘A poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal’ Guardian
‘Storytelling mastery’ Observer
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Badar’s story truly begins on the day when, aged fifteen, he is brought to Mistress’s great house in Dar es Salaam – where he proves a quick learner, and gains the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house.

But then a false accusation sees Badar banished from the place he has come to call home. Exiled, to a run-down hotel on the coast of Zanzibar, Badar must build a new life for himself. And when Karim comes to see his old friend in his new life, he is captivated by temptations that will test the two young men’s friendship to a breaking point.

**Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Awards 2026: Fiction With A Sense of Place**
About Abdulrazak Gurnah
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.

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