Desertion Gurnah Abdulrazak
Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three…
Specifikacia Desertion Gurnah Abdulrazak
Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents--from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence.Early one morning in 1899, in a small, dilapidated town along the coast of Mombassa, a Muslim man, Hassanali, sets out for a mosque but doesn't get there. Out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at Hassanali's feet: Martin Pearce--writer, traveler, something of an Orientalist. Hassanali cares for Pearce until the Englishman is taken to the home of colonial officer Frederick Turner to recuperate. When Pearce returns to thank his Good Samaritan, he meets and is enraptured by Rehana, Hassanali's sister--by her gorgeous eyes and tragic aura. And so begins the passionate,
Desertion Gurnah Abdulrazak
Desertion - Abdulrazak Gurnah
Afterlives Gurnah Abdulrazak
Afterlives Gurnah Abdulrazak
Abdulrazak Gurnah - Dottie