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Paradise

By Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Paradise

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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
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1994-04-01
Publication Date:
1994-04-01
Publisher:
New Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
156584162X
ISBN13:
9781565841628
Weight:
419 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
218 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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