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Desertion: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Description for Desertion: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Paperback. The breakthrough book from the highly acclaimed author of By the Sea Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** 'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro' Guardian 'An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss' Daily Telegraph ___________________________________ Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, ... Read more
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** 'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro' Guardian 'An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss' Daily Telegraph ___________________________________ Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
221 g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747578956
SKU
V9780747578956
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About Abdulrazak Gurnah
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’ ... Read more
Reviews for Desertion: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
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
As beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read ... Gurnah's portrait is the work of a maestro
Guardian
This is an impressive and deeply serious book, a careful and ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
As beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read ... Gurnah's portrait is the work of a maestro
Guardian
This is an impressive and deeply serious book, a careful and ... Read more