Abdulrazak Gurnah

(Author)

Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021Hardcover, 1 April 1994

Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
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Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New Press
Date Published
1 Apr 1994
ISBN-10
156584162X
ISBN-13
9781565841628

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From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah's "breakthrough" work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy's coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.

Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what Publishers Weekly calls a "vibrant" and "powerful" work that "evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover."

Product Details

Author:
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 April 1994
Dimensions:
21.59 x 14.22 x 3.05 cm
ISBN-10:
156584162X
ISBN-13:
9781565841628
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
256
Publisher:
Weight:
408.23 gm

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