BY THE SEA
Gurnah,Abdulrazak
BY THE SEA - 1 - London Bloomsbury 2021/01/01 - 245
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 there 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, of seduction and of possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times. Longlisted for the Booker Prize
9781526653253
Purchased Mathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
Fiction
England
Tanzania--Zanzibar
Tanzanians
England--London
Refugees
F / GUR/BY
BY THE SEA - 1 - London Bloomsbury 2021/01/01 - 245
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 there 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, of seduction and of possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times. Longlisted for the Booker Prize
9781526653253
Purchased Mathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
Fiction
England
Tanzania--Zanzibar
Tanzanians
England--London
Refugees
F / GUR/BY