Abdulrazak Gurnah

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”...

Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African...

A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a...

He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that....

Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history—or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain....

Ein weiteres Werk des Nobelpreisträgers für Literatur 2021 - erstmals zum Hören. Es ist ein später Novembernachmittag, als Saleh Omar auf...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” A NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS “Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held...

Obra maestra del premio Nobel de Literatura en la que las consecuencias de una relación amorosa prohibida resuenan desde el Imperio británico hasta la independencia africana.

A través de las vidas entrelazadas de tres jóvenes que alcanzan la edad adulta en el África oriental poscolonial, Gurnah teje un relato de descubrimiento, pérdida y esperanza en un mundo en transformación.

Gurnahs bewegender Coming-of-Age-Roman über Verrat und Migration als Hörbuch. Salim ist sieben und ein kleiner Träumer. Sein Leben ruht auf einigen...

Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown...