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Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Buch von Abdulrazak Gurnah
Sprache: Englisch

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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. The result is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Dinesen and William Boyd, but does so from a perspective never before available on that seldom-chronicled part of the world.
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. The result is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Dinesen and William Boyd, but does so from a perspective never before available on that seldom-chronicled part of the world.
Über den Autor
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten novels, including Paradise (The New Press), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. He lives in Canterbury, England.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781565841628
ISBN-10: 156584162X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Hersteller: New Press
Maße: 218 x 151 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.1994
Gewicht: 0,419 kg
preigu-id: 120798853
Über den Autor
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten novels, including Paradise (The New Press), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. He lives in Canterbury, England.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781565841628
ISBN-10: 156584162X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Hersteller: New Press
Maße: 218 x 151 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.1994
Gewicht: 0,419 kg
preigu-id: 120798853
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