Pilgrims Way By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
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Biographical note
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten 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) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between things” that is <b>astonishing, superb</b>
Observer
[A] <b>captivating storyteller</b>, with a voice both<b> lyrical </b>and mordant, and an oeuvre <b>haunted </b>by memory and loss. His <b>intricate </b>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
<b>Gurnah is a master storyteller</b>
- Aminatta Forna, Financial Times
Gurnah etches with <b>biting incisiveness</b> the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain
Spectator
Gurnah writes with <b>wonderful insight</b> about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with <b>elegance and warmth</b>
The Times
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
‘Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision’ Evening Standard
‘Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness’ Daily Telegraph
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Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.
Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.