**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**
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A** "wonderful" (Maaza Mengiste) depiction of the life of an
immigrant as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past
and the meaning of his life in England.
Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you
to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity,
I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who
would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would
speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother,
who would then approach you.
Daud has immigrated to England in the wake of political turmoil in his
native Tanzania. For years, he has tried to hide his past. But when he
meets Catherine, he is determined to recount for her the stories of his
tragic upbringing, his flight to England, and the racism in his new
homeland.
Structured as a pilgrimage, one which leads Daud deep into the pain and
beauty of the past and forward into a new understanding of his life in
exile, Pilgrims Way is a captivating, lyrical story about identity,
memory, and immigration.