Cover of Abdulrazak Gurnah: By the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah By the Sea

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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English

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Book information

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

UK

2002

Paperback

256

Standard

313483

978-0-7475-5785-2

0-7475-5785-3

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Annotation

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

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