"Gurnah's greatest act of love and artistry [is] his ability to gather the fragments of broken lives and create a breathtaking mosaic in print." --The Washington Post

It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation. But for Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents, it seems as if all doors are closed.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526680105
Publisert
2025-03-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
193 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter

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).