Award Winning Books by
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH
| 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 there 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 M...
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| Paradise is at once a story of a young boy's coming of age, the story of a continent on the verge of corruption by European colonialism, the story of African Islam meeting the rich pantheism of interior Africa, and a tragic love story. Paradise is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Denisen and William Boyd, but from a perspective never before available. ...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah Award Stats |
Major Prize* Nominations |
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Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
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Pulitzer Prize Wins |
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Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
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National Book Award Wins |
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National Book Award Nominations |
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Man Booker Prize Wins |
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Man Booker Prize Nominations |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
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PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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