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Abdulrazak Gurnah - Paradise, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Paradise

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Av Abdulrazak Gurnah

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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**A BBC RADIO 4 Book at Bedtime SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994'A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown' Independent on Sunday'Lingering and exquisite' Guardian'An obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved' Sunday Times____________________________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.
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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.

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Many layered, violent, beautiful and strange ... a poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown

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18 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.6/5

  1. 3/5 Rolf

    Fina beskrivningar av människor och miljöer.Gripande .Men slut behållningen är att Abdulrazak är fylld av hat efter kolonial tiden .Synd.Men han kommer nog aldrig ur detta.

  2. 4/5 Anders O

    Klart läsvärd med flera parallella historier om män och inga pojkar och livet i en kolonialstat, som känns lite främmande.

  3. 4/5 Rune

    Jag har läst några kapitel och den verkar intressant. Jag hoppas att fortsättningen är lika intressant så att jag köper fler böcker av Abdulrazak Gurnah.

  4. 4/5 Ingrid
  5. 3/5 Ann-Sofi

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