By the Sea - Abdulrazak Gurnah

By the Sea

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2002
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-5785-2 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Staggering novel of displacement and loss from the critically acclaimed author
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002

'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times
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On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection.

Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.7.2002
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 186 g
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-7475-5785-3 / 0747557853
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-5785-2 / 9780747557852
Zustand Neuware
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