Abdulrazak Gurnah - Paradise (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2021)

NOTE: This is a supplement to the collection I posted yesterday: Abdulrazak Gurnah - Nobel Prize in Literature, 2021 (9 books).  If you are one of the people helping to seed the above, you can reset the download location of PARADISE in your torrent client and move it into the existing Gurnah folder.


* Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah (New Press, 1994) — PDF

PARADISE (1994) is a historical novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.  It was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction.

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 African tradition by European colonialism.  Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life 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 offers a unique perspective on a seldom-chronicled part of the world.


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Abdulrazak Gurnah - Nobel Prize in Literature, 2021 (9 books)
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