Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa...
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Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 by Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

$51.98

Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

$51.98
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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."



Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: New Press
Published: 05/01/1995
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781565841635

About the Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of "Paradise," "Admiring Silence," and "By the Sea," all published by The New Press.

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