Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Theft

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Beschreibung

The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa

Autor

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781526678645
• ISBN-10: 1526678640
• Artikelnr.: 71706733

Rezensionen

Nobody writes about the world we call postcolonial like Abdulrazak Gurnah. His novels are uncompromising, but also stubbornly humane. They come at their subjects with open eyes, and we need what they see