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Pilgrims Way
Taschenbuch von Abdulrazak Gurnah
Sprache: Englisch

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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England
________________________Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother, who would then approach you.

Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.

Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England
________________________Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother, who would then approach you.

Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.

Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.
Über den Autor
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' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.
Zusammenfassung
Exploring themes of race and identity, cultural displacement and the immigrant experience, Pilgrims Way will appeal to fans of Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sunjeev Sahota, Teju Cole and Taiye Selasi
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 304 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526653475
ISBN-10: 1526653478
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 656337
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 196 x 125 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.12.2021
Gewicht: 0,22 kg
Artikel-ID: 120748423
Über den Autor
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' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.
Zusammenfassung
Exploring themes of race and identity, cultural displacement and the immigrant experience, Pilgrims Way will appeal to fans of Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sunjeev Sahota, Teju Cole and Taiye Selasi
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 304 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526653475
ISBN-10: 1526653478
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 656337
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 196 x 125 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.12.2021
Gewicht: 0,22 kg
Artikel-ID: 120748423
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