Paradise
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 156584162X
- ISBN 13
- 9781565841628
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NY: New Press, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 246 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers - a voice that prompted Peter Tinniswood to write in the London Times, reviewing Gurnah's previous novel, "Mr. Gurnah is a very fine writer. I am certain he will become a great one." Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's great novel. At twelve, Yusuf, the protagonist of this twentieth-century odyssey, is sold by his father in repayment of a debt. From the simple life of rural Africa, Yusuf is thrown into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa - a fascinating world in which Muslim black Africans, Christian missionaries, and Indians from the subcontinent coexist in a fragile, subtle social hierarchy.Through the eyes of Yusuf, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. Then, just as Yusuf begins to comprehend the choices required of him, he and everyone around him must adjust to the new reality of European colonialism. Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Record # 371755
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 371755
- Title
- Paradise
- Author
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 156584162X
- ISBN 13
- 9781565841628
- Publisher
- New Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1994
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