Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, 12-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence.
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Höhe: 208 mm
Breite: 139 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-56584-163-5 (9781565841635)
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Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of Paradise, Admiring Silence, and By the Sea, all published by The New Press.
