The Nobel Prize has lifted up a deserving chronicler of postcolonial displacement. Here's a guide to getting started on his work.
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize for literature for works that explore the effects of colonialism and the plight of refugees.But the question remains: Where do you start? Here are a few suggestions to get a curious reader going:No other novel, for me, captures the longing and loneliness of the African refugee in the U.K. quite as powerfully as “,” which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
,” these themes are teased out through a reverse journey: A Zanzibari man, long settled in England and married to an English woman, returns to Zanzibar and begins to confront his own fictions of the past.,” on England and two siblings, Jamal and Hanna, who were raised in Norwich by a Zanzibari father and an English mother. They know little of their father’s past in Zanzibar, or indeed of his travels around the world as a sailor.
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