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Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of six novels, including Paradise, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, and By the Sea, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.



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Desertion
Desertion
Written by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400095407
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Desertion

Written by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $13.95

In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and is rescued by Hassanali, a shopkeeper whose beautiful sister Rehana nurses Pearce back to health. Pearce and Rehana begin a passionate illicit love affair, which resonates fifty years later when the narrator’s... Read more >
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Desertion
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ISBN: 9780307425508
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Desertion

Written by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

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... Read more >
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