by Abdulrazak Gurnah · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418968075
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«A orillas del mar» is the novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, published by Salamandra in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Saleh Omar, a merchant from Zanzibar, arrives in England as a refugee with a false passport and a mahogany box. Social services seek out Latif Mahmud, a poet who speaks Swahili, to act as interpreter. The encounter between the two in a coastal town uncovers an old story of love, betrayal and disputes.
Original title: «By the Sea» (2001). The author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For readers of literary fiction interested in exile, identity and cultural clash.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
