Abdulrazak Gurnah

Desertion

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Produktbeschreibung

"The consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 160mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780593716557
• ISBN-10: 0593716558
• Artikelnr.: 67863272

Autorenporträt

Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of ten novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award), and Desertion. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

Rezensionen

Rich in detail and filled with acute observations, this novel movingly examines the absences eating away at the core of all of its characters Sunday Telegraph