Abdulrazak Gurnah, Author . New Press $22.95 (245p) ISBN 978-1-56584-658-6
Dense, accomplished and sharply conceived, this novel by Anglo-African writer Gurnah (Paradise; Admiring Silence) tells the story of 65-year-old Saleh Omar, a merchant refugee from Zanzibar who applies for asylum in England. A present-day Sinbad,...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Author . Pantheon $23 (262p) ISBN 978-0-375-42354-3
Against the backdrop of colonial Africa, Booker-nominated Gurnah (By the Sea
; Paradise
) crafts a dense, decade-straddling story of cross-cultural love and its repercussions in his seventh novel, which begins in Zanzibar in 1899. After Somali...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Author New Press $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-56584-349-3
This tightly focused story of an unnamed Zanzibarian expatriate who returns home after a 20-year exile in England poignantly evokes the cultural limbo of many emigres. For his lover, anti-bourgeoisie rebel Ph.D. candidate Emma, and her upper-middle-c
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Author Grove/Atlantic $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1018-3
This haunting coming-of-age novel evokes in spare but vivid prose the exotic sights, sounds and landscapes of coastal East Africa and the spiritual rebirth of a sensitive 15-year-old. Living with his family in a poverty-stricken seaport village, the
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Author New Press $19.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-56584-162-8
Gurnah's powerful, ironically titled story evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover by the European powers. Set in Colonial East Africa as English invaders drive natives off the land and Germans
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Abdulrazak Gurnah. Bloomsbury, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62040-328-0
Gurnah’s latest (after Paradise) follows an East African immigrant living in a small English town as he and his family reckon with his past, which has long been shrouded in mystery. After suffering a debilitating stroke at age 63, Abbas suddenly...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah. Bloomsbury, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-63286-813-8
Not until over a hundred pages into this novel does Salim, the narrator whose life we follow and whose thoughts we inhabit, say out loud to anyone in his adopted country where he’s from: Zanzibar, a small island off the east coast of Africa. The...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah. Riverhead, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-54188-3
In Nobel laureate Gurnah’s riveting latest (after Gravel Heart), the lives of three East Africans play out in an unnamed coastal town during the period of German colonial rule in Africa in the early 20th century. As a child, Ilyas is kidnapped by a...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah. Riverhead, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-85260-6
Two Tanzanian men, abandoned as boys, forge their own paths in this incisive novel by Nobel Prize winner Gurnah (Afterlives). Karim’s Muslim parents divorce when he is a boy. His mother, Raya, feels no affection for him, and abandons him to her...
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