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Last Gift
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Hardcover. An astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home by the Booker-shortlisted author of Desertion Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 16 x 30. Weight in Grams: 509. A Novel. 288 pages. A meditation on family, self and the meaning of home by the Booker-shortlisted author of "Desertion.". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 240 x 16 x 30. Weight: 509.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury UK
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747599944
SKU
V9780747599944
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About Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and 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 awarded the RFI Temoin du monde prize) and Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize).
Reviews for Last Gift
PRAISE FOR ABDULRAZAK GURNAH: ‘Abdulrazak Gurnah is a captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss'
Guardian
‘Gurnah has some of the sharpness and clarity of VS Naipaul and more than a dash of Ben Okri's measured poetic diction'
New Statesman
‘As always with Gurnah's writing, ... Read more
Guardian
‘Gurnah has some of the sharpness and clarity of VS Naipaul and more than a dash of Ben Okri's measured poetic diction'
New Statesman
‘As always with Gurnah's writing, ... Read more