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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1648 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781639730094

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Abdulrazak Gurnah ebook Bundle by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, six powerful novels for fans of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Teju Cole. Included in this bundle, you'll find: Memory of Departure Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life. Pilgrims Way 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 life in England. Dottie A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past. Admiring Silence A dazzling tale of cultural identity and displacement and the story of a man's dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England. The Last Gift An astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home that follows a father, and his two children, all haunted by their unspoken family history. Gravel Heart A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, that evokes the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding.

Refugee Tales: Volume III

Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg
Refugee Tales Volume III Book PDF

Author : Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697120

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Refugee Tales: Volume III by Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg Pdf

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released. In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives. ‘We hear so many of the wrong words about refugees – ugly, limiting, unimaginative words – that it feels like a gift to find here so many of the right words which allow us to better understand the lives around us, and our own lives too.’ – Kamila Shamsie All profits go to the Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group and Kent Help for Refugees.

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie Book PDF

Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827515

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The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

Memory of Departure

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Memory of Departure Book PDF

Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408883983

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Memory of Departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of Independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother's rightful share of the family inheritance. The collision of past secrets and future hopes, the compound of fear and frustration, beauty and brutality, create a fierce tale of undeniable power.

Refugee Tales

Ali Smith,Marina Lewycka,Patience Agbabi,Jade Amoli-Jackson,Chris Cleave,Stephen Collis,Inua Ellams,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Avaes Mohammed,Hubert Moore,Dragan Todorovic,Carol Watts,Michael Zand
Refugee Tales Book PDF

Author : Ali Smith,Marina Lewycka,Patience Agbabi,Jade Amoli-Jackson,Chris Cleave,Stephen Collis,Inua Ellams,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Avaes Mohammed,Hubert Moore,Dragan Todorovic,Carol Watts,Michael Zand
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910974230

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Refugee Tales by Ali Smith,Marina Lewycka,Patience Agbabi,Jade Amoli-Jackson,Chris Cleave,Stephen Collis,Inua Ellams,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Avaes Mohammed,Hubert Moore,Dragan Todorovic,Carol Watts,Michael Zand Pdf

Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.

By the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah
By the Sea Book PDF

Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526653406

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By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times 'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times _______________ On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

By the Sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah
By the Sea Book PDF

Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593542002

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By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession—a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a distinguished young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their mutual past begin to unravel—revealing an infinitely more fascinating story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

The Last Gift

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408819845

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The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Abbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to. Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother Maryam, who began life as a foundling and has never thought to find herself, until now. ________________________ 'Gurnah is a master storyteller' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth' THE TIMES

Admiring Silence

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526653451

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Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

A man returns to his native Zanzibar after years of exile in England, and must come to terms with the changes both in him and in his childhood home.

Desertion

Abdulrazak Gurnah
Desertion Book PDF

Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593541982

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Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali’s sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affair bursts into flame, with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences. In this devastating and ingeniously spun tale, the Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatizes the personal and political legacies of colonialism.

British Muslim Fictions

C. Chambers
British Muslim Fictions Book PDF

Author : C. Chambers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230343085

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British Muslim Fictions by C. Chambers Pdf

Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair.

Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526615879

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Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Pdf

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian 'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year _______________ While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away... _______________ 'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee 'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole' Maaza Mengiste 'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus Book PDF

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007383696

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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.

Islam in the Eastern African Novel

E. Mirmotahari
Islam in the Eastern African Novel Book PDF

Author : E. Mirmotahari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119291

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Islam in the Eastern African Novel by E. Mirmotahari Pdf

This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.

Buying Disney's World

Aaron H. Goldberg
Buying Disney s World Book PDF

Author : Aaron H. Goldberg
Publisher : Quaker Scribe
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781733642057

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Buying Disney's World by Aaron H. Goldberg Pdf

In November of 1965, after numerous months of speculation surrounding a mystery industry that had been purchasing large amounts of land in central Florida, Walt Disney finally put an end to the rumors. He announced to the public his grandiose plans for the thousands of acres he had secretly purchased. For the eighteen months prior to the announcement, Walt entrusted a small group of men to covertly make these purchases. Next, they were tasked with drafting a legislative act to submit to the state of Florida that would allow Disney to wield nearly absolute legal control over the property under a quasi-government municipality. Staying true to its storytelling roots, Disney wove a tale of mystery centered around a high-ranking CIA operative, who was rumored to have been, just a few short years before, the paymaster behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. This savvy and well-connected CIA agent became the de facto leader for the group of Disney executives and attorneys who orchestrated and executed a nearly perfect plan to keep Disney’s identity a secret from the public by utilizing aliases, shell corporations, and meandering travel itineraries, all in an effort to protect the company’s identity during the land acquisition process. As told through the personal notes and files from the key figures involved in the project, Buying Disney’s World details the story of how Walt Disney World came to be, like you’ve never heard before. From conception to construction and everything in between—including how a parcel of land within Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort was acquired during a high-stakes poker game—explore how the company most famous for creating Mickey Mouse acquired central Florida’s swamps, orange groves, and cow pastures to build a Disney fiefdom and a Magic Kingdom.