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By the Sea : By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

By the Sea : By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

Language: English

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Pages: 256 pages

Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 18mm

Publication Date: 2002-07-08

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN: 9780747557852

Cover Type: Paperback

Book Weight: 186g

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