Admiring Silence

Literature & Fiction

ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Desertion

Penguin US

By the Sea A Novel

Penguin

Afterlives

Penguin Publishing Group

Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) A Novel

Knopf Publishing Group

By the Sea

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.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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 merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts, Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.

Paradise

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

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. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. He is taken to recuperate at the house of a colonial official, Frederick Turner. When he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue, he meets his sister Rehana and is immediately fascinated by her beautiful eyes and her air of tragedy. In this crumbling town on the edge of civilised life, with the empire on the brink of a new century, a passionate love affair begins that brings two cultures together and that will reverberate through three generations and across continents. It carries its consequences to Zanzibar in the early 1950s, a country struggling with its complicated legacy of slavery and foreign rule. Here another forbidden love affair begins as Zanzibar moves inexorably towards Independence - and revolution. Through the lives of his characters Abdulrazak Gurnah creates an unforgettable portrait of a continent in upheaval. Ambitious, moving and absorbing, it is a spellbinding novel from a writer at the height of his powers.

Bloomsbury Publishing

Last Gift

Bloomsbury UK

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