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Gurnah Abdulrazak
Admiring Silence By The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2021
Admiring Silence By The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2021
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Description: By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice Financial Times I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home Independent on Sunday_____________________ He thinks as he escapes from Zanzibar that he will probably never return and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined the school where he teaches is cramped and violent he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma beautiful rebellious Emma who turns away from her white middle - class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there in a story potent with truth will change the entire vision of his life.
Title: Admiring Silence By The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2021
Author(s): Gurnah Abdulrazak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781526653451
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 3/8/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice Financial Times I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home Independent on Sunday_____________________ He thinks as he escapes from Zanzibar that he will probably never return and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined the school where he teaches is cramped and violent he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma beautiful rebellious Emma who turns away from her white middle - class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there in a story potent with truth will change the entire vision of his life.
Title: Admiring Silence By The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2021
Author(s): Gurnah Abdulrazak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781526653451
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 3/8/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction