The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature by Gurnah, Abdulrazak

The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never...
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Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Language: English
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The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature by Gurnah, Abdulrazak

The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

¥6,045

The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

¥6,045
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty-three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and there was no one to blame for it but himself.

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 life with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to.

Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark blue eyes and her own complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother, Maryam, who has never thought to find herself-until now.

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 02/11/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.49h x 6.37w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9781620403280


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2013
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2013
Booklist 12/15/2013 pg. 19
Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 65

About the Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of seven novels, which include Paradise, shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prizes; By the Sea, longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.

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