EAN: 9780747557852

BY THE SEA - ABDULRAZAK GURNAH KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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