Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Title: Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah ISBN: 9781565841635 Publisher: The New Press Published: 1995 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1325667 Publisher Description: Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers - a voice that prompted Peter Tinniswood to write in the London Times, reviewing Gurnah's previous novel, "Mr. Gurnah is a very fine writer. I am certain he will become a great one." Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's great novel. At twelve, Yusuf, the protagonist of this twentieth-century odyssey, is sold by his father in repayment of a debt. From the simple life of rural Africa, Yusuf is thrown into t