PARADISE : By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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  • Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Imprint Bloomsbury
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publication Date 21-05-2018
  • Price ₹499.00
  • ISBN 9780747573999
  • Length 256 pp

Description
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.

Author Biography
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the authorof 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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