Abdulrazak Gurnah

Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick from Zanzibar. He used to own a furniture shop and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise. Latif Mahmud, intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives alone in his London flat. They meet in a seaside town, where their story unravels.

Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, 12-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence.

Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, 12-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence.