Paradise

Paradise

by Abdulrazak Gurnah
ISBN-10:
1565841638
ISBN-13:
9781565841635
Pub. Date:
05/01/1995
Publisher:
New Press, The
ISBN-10:
1565841638
ISBN-13:
9781565841635
Pub. Date:
05/01/1995
Publisher:
New Press, The
Paradise

Paradise

by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Overview

A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England’s highest honor for works of fiction, Paradise is at once the story of an African boy’s coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.

Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf’s eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is a page-turning saga that offers a unique perspective on a seldom-chronicled part of the world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565841635
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 05/01/1995
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 25,752
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author


Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of Paradise, Admiring Silence, and By the Sea, all published by The New Press.
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