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Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**'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, a ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick from Zanzibar. He used to own a furniture shop and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise. Latif Mahmud, intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives alone in his London flat. They meet in a seaside town, where their story unravels. Paperback (B- ...Show more
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The breakthrough book from the Booker-shortlisted author of Paradise and By the Sea "Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But that morning he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at his feet. T ...Show more
Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise.Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It i ...Show more
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing ...Show more
Memory of Departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of Independence b ...Show more
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 merc ...Show more
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$42.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 merc ...Show more
Pilgrims Way by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**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. ...Show more
The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it ...Show more
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