Name: Paradise
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Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
ISBN: 9781565841635

Type

Physical Book

Author

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Publisher

New Press

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

246

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

9781565841635

ISBN13

9781565841635

Synopsis "Paradise "

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." --Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah's "breakthrough" work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy's coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what Publishers Weekly calls a "vibrant" and "powerful" work that "evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover."

Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar in 1948, is a Tanzanian novelist who writes in English and has been living in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s. His work focuses on themes such as colonialism, displacement, and the refugee experience. Among his most notable novels are "Paradise" (1994), "By the Sea" (2001), and "Desertion" (2005). In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "unflinching and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee".

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