EAN: 9781526653475

PILGRIMS WAY - ABDULRAZAK GURNAH KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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