Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of belonging, betrayal and exile, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise
Nobel Prize winner 2021: 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... Læs mere
The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa
Nobel Prize winner 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah. Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and... Læs mere
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature! Abbas has never told anyone about his past - before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in... Læs mere
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature! - He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above... Læs mere
Den unavngivne fortæller flygter fra sit hjemland Zanzibar til England vel vidende, at han nok aldrig vender tilbage. I England er alt forkert, og han glemmer hurtigt, hvordan det føles at... Læs mere