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 www.doorway.ru one morning in , in a small, dilapidated town along the coast of Mombassa, a /5(2). Desertion. Abdulrazak Gurnah, Author. Pantheon $23 (p) ISBN Against the backdrop of colonial Africa, Booker-nominated Gurnah (By . Paradise, Gurnah's novel, is set in the period of the colonial encounter in East Africa, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. It was followed by Admiring Silence and By the Sea. His novel, Desertion, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in .
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah pp, Bloomsbury, £ Desertion and abandonment are the themes that run through this novel, and which link its stories of tragic love with the history and. Biobibliography English English [pdf] Swedish Swedish [pdf] Biobibliography. Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean but arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the s. After the peaceful liberation from British colonial rule in December Zanzibar went through a revolution which, under President Abeid Karume's regime, led to. Desertion By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah (Author) Share; Desertion By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize Reviews. Rich in detail and filled with acute observations.
Desertion is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing. by Abdulrazak Gurnah ‧ RELEASE DATE: J. The divisive legacy of colonialism afflicts three generations of African and English families in the Zanzibar native (now British) author’s moving yet ungainly seventh novel. An initially unidentified narrator reveals events following the appearance of orientalist Martin Pearce in an unnamed village on Africa’s east coast, in what was then the Uganda Protectorate. Desertion. by. Abdulrazak Gurnah. · Rating details · ratings · 44 reviews. In , an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and is rescued by Hassanali, a shopkeeper whose beautiful sister Rehana nurses Pearce back to health.
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