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Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 - Paperback

by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Availability:In StockContributor:Abdulrazak GurnahPublish date:2022-03-08Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781526653451ISBN-10:1526653451UPC:9781526653451Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, African American & BlackBook Topic:AfricaSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC89G3R4TH

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**

A "corrosively funny and relentless" (The New York Times) tale of cultural identity and displacement, Admiring Silence is the story of a man's dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England.

The unnamed narrator of this dazzling novel escapes from Zanzibar to England knowing that he will probably never return. In his new country, things are not quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, and he quickly forgets how it feels to belong.

But when he meets a beautiful, rebellious woman named Emma, and when Emma, turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child, the narrator chooses to hide his past from his new family and his present circumstance from his family back in Zanzibar.

Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury PublishingISBN-13:9781526653451ISBN-10:1526653451UPC:9781526653451Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, African American & BlackBook Topic:AfricaSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC89G3R4TH
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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