Background
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948, in Zanzibar.
(Paradise is at once the story of an African boy’s coming ...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Abdulrazak-Gurnah/dp/1565841638/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwic...)
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 there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense.
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Abdulrazak-Gurnah/dp/0747557853/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Spanish edition)
Spanish edition
https://www.amazon.com/En-Orilla-Spanish-Abdulrazak-Gurnah/dp/8496071057/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah give...)
Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence.
https://www.amazon.com/Desertion-Abdulrazak-Gurnah/dp/0375423540/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp ...)
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency.
https://www.amazon.com/Grain-Wheat-Penguin-African-Writers-ebook/dp/B0072NZZVC/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away withou...)
One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty-three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and there was no one to blame for it but himself.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Novel-Abdulrazak-Gurnah/dp/1620403285/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Masterfully blending myth and reality, this is the story ...)
Masterfully blending myth and reality, this is the story of a man's escape from his native Zanzibar to England to build a new life. A dazzling tale of cultural identity and displacement.
https://www.amazon.com/Admiring-Silence-Abdulrazak-Gurnah-ebook/dp/B01M13CPO7/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first nov...)
Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life.
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Departure-Abdulrazak-Gurnah-ebook/dp/B01M1EOP08/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, a...)
An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.
https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrims-Way-Abdulrazak-Gurnah-ebook/dp/B01M0FWYRN/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled ...)
A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past.
https://www.amazon.com/Dottie-Abdulrazak-Gurnah-ebook/dp/B01M046QC7/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.)
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.
https://www.amazon.com/Gravel-Heart-Abdulrazak-Gurnah/dp/163286813X/?tag=2022091-20
2017
critic novelist short story writer
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948, in Zanzibar.
Gurnah received his education in Africa and in England, where he has lived since 1968. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kent, in 1982.
Gurnah serves as a Professor within the Department of English at the University of Kent, as well as Director of Graduate studies.
Gurnah brings his experiences as a resident of both Africa and Europe to his written work. He is the editor of A Companion to Salman Rushdie (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Gurnah has supervised research projects on the writing of Rushdie, Naipaul, G. V. Desani, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid.
Gurnah has edited two volumes of Essays on African Writing, has published articles on a number of contemporary postcolonial writers, including V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Zoë Wicomb.
The most famous of his novels are Paradise, Desertion and By the Sea, the first of which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize. By the Sea, meanwhile, was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
(Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah give...)
2005(Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp ...)
2012(An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, a...)
2016(Paradise is at once the story of an African boy’s coming ...)
1995(Masterfully blending myth and reality, this is the story ...)
2016(On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwic...)
2002(Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first nov...)
2016(One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away withou...)
2014(A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled ...)
2016(A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.)
2017(Spanish edition)
2003
