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Gravel Heart
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Description for Gravel Heart
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Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict: longed-for independence from British colonialism ... Read more
Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict: longed-for independence from British colonialism ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408881309
SKU
9781408881309
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Ref
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About Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of eight 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), and The Last Gift. He is a Professor of English ... Read more
Reviews for Gravel Heart
[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss. His intricate novels of arrival and departure ... reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of history collide
Guardian
Gurnah is a master storyteller
Aminatta Forna
Financial Times
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Guardian
Gurnah is a master storyteller
Aminatta Forna
Financial Times
... Read more