Paradise
A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Person: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gurnah
Year: 2021
Language: English
Scope: 256 p.
Expected to be available from: Mar 14, 2025
- Contents:
- By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureA BBC RADIO 4 Book at Bedtime SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE_______________________'A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown' Independent on Sunday'Gurnah evokes his world in poetic prose which is pure and lucid - a small paradise in itself ... The pleasures, sadnesses and losses in all the shining facets of this book are lingering and exquisite' Guardian'An obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved' Sunday Times_______________________Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
Title Information
Title: Paradise
Person: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gurnah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781526653437
Category: Literature & Entertainment
File size: 601 KB
Format: ePub
Loan period: 21 days