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Författaren Abdulrazak Gurnah föddes på Zanzibar men lever sedan slutet av 60-talet i Storbritannien. Han debuterade med Memory of Departure 1987 och fick sitt stora genombrott med romanen Paradiset, som nominerades till Bookerpriset.

År 2021 tilldelades Abdulrazak Gurnah det prestigefulla Nobelpriset i litteratur med motiveringen: "För att kompromisslöst och med stor medkänsla ha genomlyst kolonialismens verkningar och flyktingens öde i klyftan mellan kulturer och kontinenter.”

I september 2026 gästar Abdulrazak Gurnah Bokmässan i Göteborg. Han medverkar i flera programpunkter, bland annat för att samtala om sitt författarskap och om litteraturens roll i en tid av krig, oro och demokratiska prövningar.

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By the Sea
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
4,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(8)
133 kr
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**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_______________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.
Paradise
A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
3,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(18)
133 kr
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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.
Paradiset
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
3,9 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(81)
269 kr
Skickas
Tolvårige Yusuf skickas av sina fattiga föräldrar till kusten för att bo hos sin farbror Aziz, en förmögen köpman. Snart går det upp för den oskuldsfulle Yusuf att köpmannen inte alls är Yusufs farbror: i själva verket har han sålts som skuldslav av sin far. Så börjar livets hårda skola för Yusuf. Genom Yusuf får vi uppleva ett Afrika som präglas av stamstrider, vidskeplighet, sjukdomar och barnslaveri, men drömmaren Yusuf får också en skymt av paradisets portar av eld och vatten.
Paradiset är en mångbottnad, våldsam, vacker och märklig berättelse med ett poetiskt, skirt och avskalat språk, där perspektivet aldrig viker från den unga huvudpersonens sida. Den är fast förankrad i sin tid och sin miljö, en berättelse som ändå – eller just därför – är djupt allmängiltig.
Gravel Heart
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
133 kr
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature‘The elegance and control of Gurnah's writing, and his understanding of how quietly and slowly and repeatedly a heart can break, make this a deeply rewarding novel’ Kamila Shamsie, Guardian________________________For seven-year-old Salim, the pillars upholding his small universe – his indifferent father, his adored uncle, his treasured books, the daily routines of government school and Koran lessons – seem unshakeable.But it is the 1970s, and the winds of change are blowing through Zanzibar: suddenly Salim’s father is gone, and the island convulses with violence and corruption the wake of a revolution. It will only be years later, making his way through an alien and hostile London, that Salim will begin to understand the shame and exploitation festering at the heart of his family’s history. ________________________‘Riveting … The measured elegance of Gurnah’s prose renders his protagonist in a manner almost uncannily real’ New York Times‘Glittering ... Each work is different from the last, yet they build into a powerfully evocative oeuvre that keeps coming back to the same questions, in spare, graceful prose, about the ties that bind and the ties that fray’ Telegraph‘A colourful tale of life in a Zanzibar village, where passions and politics reshape a family… Powerful’ Mail on Sunday
Theft
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
133 kr
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From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa **Selected as a book to look out for in 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and BBC****A Time Book of the Year 2025**‘A poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal’ Guardian‘Storytelling mastery’ Observer_________________________________________________________Badar’s story truly begins on the day when, aged fifteen, he is brought to Mistress’s great house in Dar es Salaam – where he proves a quick learner, and gains the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house.But then a false accusation sees Badar banished from the place he has come to call home. Exiled, to a run-down hotel on the coast of Zanzibar, Badar must build a new life for himself. And when Karim comes to see his old friend in his new life, he is captivated by temptations that will test the two young men’s friendship to a breaking point.**Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Awards 2026: Fiction With A Sense of Place**
Desertion
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
133 kr
Skickas
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro' Guardian'An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss' Daily Telegraph___________________________________Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali's sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated. 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 which will reverberate through three generations and across continents.
Afterlives
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(8)
121 kr
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BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE‘Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure’ Maaza Mengiste, Guardian‘A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer’ Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year_______________While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away…_______________‘One of the world’s most prominent postcolonial writers … He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals’ Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee‘In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole’ Maaza Mengiste‘Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment’ The Times
Memory of Departure
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
133 kr
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The debut novel by the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureVehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar’s family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother’s rightful share of the family inheritance. The collision of past secrets and future hopes, the compound of fear and frustration, beauty and brutality, create a fierce tale of undeniable power.____________________‘Gurnah is a master storyteller' FINANCIAL TIMES'Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between things” that is astonishing, superb' OBSERVER'A captivating storyteller' GUARDIAN'Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain' SPECTATOR
Admiring Silence
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
133 kr
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' Independent on Sunday_____________________He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.Things do not happen quite as he imagined – the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.
Last Gift
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
139 kr
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureAbbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to.Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother Maryam, who began life as a foundling and has never thought to find herself, until now.________________________‘Gurnah is a master storyteller' FINANCIAL TIMES‘Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth' THE TIMES
Dottie
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
136 kr
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By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past‘Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth’ The Times_________________________________Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history – or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain.At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.
Den sista gåvan
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(16)
269 kr
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Människorna i Den sista gåvan är offer för sina omständigheter, illa tilltygade av den globala migrationens tidvattensvågor, på flykt från sig själva. De är märkta av förlust, skam och rädsla. Med mästarhand skildrar Abdulrazak Gurnah deras rotlöshet, skuldkänslorna gentemot dem som har lämnats kvar, deras längtan efter tillhörighet och deras försök att uppfinna sig själva på nytt. Det här är berättelsen om den sköra gränsen mellan förlust och frihet, mellan gamla svek och nya lojaliteter.
Den sista gåvan är Abdulrazak Gurnahs åttonde roman och hans andra på svenska. Här återvänder han till de teman han har utforskat i flera av sina tidigare romaner: exil och skuld.
Efterliv
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
4,1 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(25)
269 kr
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Nobelpristagaren Abdulrazak Gurnahs senaste roman är en omskakande berättelse om krig och kärlek under 1900-talets första decennier.
Som liten flicka lämnas föräldralösa Afiya hos en avlägsen släkting när hennes äldre bror tar värvning hos de tyska kolonialtrupperna. Hon växer upp med en bildningstörst, men tvingas foga sig i kvinnans begränsade plats i samhället. Efter kriget återvänder inte brodern. Det gör i stället en annan ung man – Hamza – som såldes till krigsmakten av sin familj och har sårats svårt i kriget. Liksom Afiya kan han läsa, och de båda förälskar sig i varandra på avstånd.
Efterliv, den tredje boken av Gurnah att översättas till svenska, är en ömsint och stundtals gastkramande skildring av människor som kämpar för sitt eget värde i skuggan av kolonialismens världsordning.
Vid havet
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Svenska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(7)
279 kr
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En mörk novemberdag anländer Saleh Omar till Gatwick. I Zanzibar var han make, far, hade en möbelaffär. Nu söker han asyl, på flykt från paradiset, och tystnaden är hans enda skydd. I London finns Latif Mahmud, en man med kopplingar till Salehs förflutna, och när Saleh och Latif sedan möts i en engelsk kuststad avslöjas en historia som rymmer både kärlek och svek. Bookernominerade "Vid havet" är en av Abdulrazak Gurnahs mest hyllade romaner, en berättelse om flykt och längtan, om kampen för att hitta något slags hem i en värld där inget består.
Afterlives
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
269 kr
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Stöld
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
267 kr
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Vinnare av Nobelpriset i litteratur 2021.
I ett land präglat av revolutionens efterdyningar korsas tre unga människors liv. Det är i slutet av 1990-talet, och Karim, Fauzia och Badar har alla stora drömmar och försöker skapa sig en framtid i det postkoloniala Tanzania. För den föräldralöse tjänstepojken Badar verkar dock möjligheterna obefintliga. Efter en falsk anklagelse erbjuds han en fristad hos Karim och Fauzia, och han får för första gången uppleva sann vänskap. Men med den framväxande turismen kommer oväntade möjligheter och faror, och alla tre får i sin tur lära sig vad det innebär att ta sitt öde i sina egna händer.
"Stöld" är en fängslande roman om lojalitet, svek och de svåra val som formar våra liv.
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH, f. 1948, är en tanzanisk författare verksam i England. Han tilldelades 2021 år Nobelpris i litteratur ”för att kompromisslöst och med stor medkänsla ha genomlyst kolonialismens verkningar och flyktingens öde i klyftan mellan kulturer och kontinenter”.
"En stillsamt kraftfull uppvisning i mästerlig berättarkonst." - The Guardian
The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
381 kr
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Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.
The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 286 kr
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Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.
Desertion
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
269 kr
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By the Sea
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
269 kr
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Afterlives
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
439 kr
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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
387 kr
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Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2007
454 kr
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Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie''s importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie''s life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.
Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2007
454 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie''s importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie''s life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.
Last Gift
By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
136 kr
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureAbbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to.Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell. Abbas''s illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother Maryam, who began life as a foundling and has never thought to find herself, until now.________________________''Gurnah is a master storyteller'' FINANCIAL TIMES''Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth'' THE TIMES
Gravel Heart
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
136 kr
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Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ParadiseSalim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island''s white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict: longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into dishevelled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother explains neither this nor her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence.When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, Salim must face devastating truths about himself and those closest to him – and about love, sex and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound insight, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging and betrayal, and is Abulrazak Gurnah''s most dazzling achievement.
Admiring Silence
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
138 kr
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature''There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator''s voice'' Financial Times''I don''t think I''ve ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home'' Independent on Sunday_____________________He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.Things do not happen quite as he imagined – the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.
Memory of Departure
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
136 kr
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The debut novel by the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureVehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah''s first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar''s family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother''s rightful share of the family inheritance. The collision of past secrets and future hopes, the compound of fear and frustration, beauty and brutality, create a fierce tale of undeniable power.____________________''Gurnah is a master storyteller'' FINANCIAL TIMES''Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between things” that is astonishing, superb'' OBSERVER''A captivating storyteller'' GUARDIAN''Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain'' SPECTATOR
Dottie
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
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By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past''Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth'' The Times_________________________________Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history – or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain.At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.
Pilgrims Way
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AvAbdulrazak Gurnah
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature ''Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision'' Evening Standard''Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness'' Daily Telegraph________________________Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.