Abdulrazak Gurnah ebook Bundle: A Six Book Bundle
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Overview
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.
The measured elegance of Gurnah’s prose renders his protagonist in a manner almost uncannily real . . . Gurnah’s portrayal of student immigrant life in Britain is pleasingly deliberate and precise, and also riveting . . . Even the minor characters in this novel have richly imagined histories that inflect their smallest interactions--one of the loveliest pleasures of this book, and a choice that makes its world exceptionally full.
[Gurnah’s] sentences are deceptively soft, but the cumulative force for me felt like a sledgehammer. He has written work that is absolutely unflinching and yet at the same time completely compassionate and full of heart for people of East Africa. He is writing stories that are often quiet stories of people who aren’t heard, but there’s an insistence there that we listen.
Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth.
- Title: Abdulrazak Gurnah ebook Bundle: A Six Book Bundle
- Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 1648
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781639730094, 1639730095
- Resource ID: LLS:9781639730094
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:22:17Z
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.