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Paradise is a historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibar-born British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1994 by Hamish Hamilton in London. The novel was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction.
- United Kingdom
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- English
- Hamish Hamilton
Paradis is a 1981 novel by French novelist Philippe Sollers. Sollers conceived the book as a literary homage to Dante's Paradiso. Noted by critics for its lack of punctuation, Paradis has been compared to The Cantos of Ezra Pound and Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Paradis was published in three volumes: Paradis, followed later by Paradis II ...
- 347 pp.
- Philippe Sollers
- 1981
- Éditions du Seuil
1 de ene. de 1994 · Abdulrazak Gurnah. 3.60. 10,011 ratings1,084 reviews. 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 ...
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1 de may. de 1995 · Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf’s eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence.
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- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- The New Press
1 de ene. de 2021 · 3.64. 12,916 ratings2,235 reviews. Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor - an attractive married woman and mother - while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener ...
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Gurnah’s fourth novel, Paradise (1994), is considered to be his breakthrough work. Set in East Africa in the early 20th century, it is a coming-of-age story about 12-year-old Yusuf, who has been sold to a trader by his father as repayment for a debt; his experiences include journeying…
14 de jun. de 2023 · Paradise Novel Summary by Abdulrazak Gurnah. “Paradise” is a powerful and profound novel written by Abdulrazak Gurnah, the acclaimed Tanzanian-British author. With its captivating narrative and insightful exploration of themes, the book stands as a Novel work of literature that leaves a lasting impact on its readers.
