by Abdulrazak Gurnah · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788410340817
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Discover 'Paradise', a moving coming-of-age story by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, illuminating the beauty and harshness of pre-colonial Africa. Through the eyes of Yusuf, a young man given to his uncle Aziz to settle a debt, the reader is immersed in a journey through Central Africa on the eve of World War I. In this lush and hostile world, Yusuf will discover ruthless tribes and heartless invaders, where human life has little value. A reflection on freedom and the loss of innocence in a continent on the brink of change.
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.
