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1	Desertion more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist 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 brother falls madly in love ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Paradise more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist An African boy comes of age in precolonial East Africa. Sold into slavery by his father, Yusuf is thrown into a multi-ethnic world of war and violence--and the trials of adolescence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.45! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Admiring silence more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist A man escapes from his native Zanzibar to come to England, and builds a new life with an English woman. He tells reassuring stories of post-colonial Africa. But on a return visit to his country his vision is challenged and he comes to understand the transformations that have befallen him. see all copies from $2.05! new only from $14.88! \| first editions \| SVS
4	By the Sea more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist A stunning and elegiac look at a world where imperialism has opened up boundaries, only to close off borders. Powerful and profound, it reveals an author at the height of his powers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Editor) add to wishlist Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the ... see all copies from $15.90! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
6	Memory of Departure more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist see all copies from $2.94! first editions
7	Essays in African Writing, II: A Re-Evaluation more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist African literature has changed significantly since the first generation of post-colonial writers. This volume of essays examines some of the new themes which have emerged in writers from Ben Okri to Tsitsi Dangarembga, and also sets out to demonstrate how African literary criticism has developed. see all copies from $9.54! new only from $19.95!
8	Essays on African Writing, I: A Re-Evaluation more books like this by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of essays takes a fresh look at major literary figures from the world of African writing. see all copies from $23.96!
9	Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain. see all copies from $33.49! first editions
10	Pres De La Mer by Gurnah Abdulrazak add to wishlist see all copies from $70.75! new only from $70.75!
11	Pilgrims Way by Abdulrazak Gurnah add to wishlist An attempt to portray the life of a black man living in England as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England, and to describe the English attitude towards this central black character. see all copies from $80.17!

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