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By the Sea

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:8th Jul '02

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A staggering novel of displacement and loss from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Staggering novel of displacement and loss from the critically acclaimed author**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002 'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times --_ On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... one scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment * The Times *

ISBN: 9780747557852

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 186g

256 pages