Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah's "breakthrough" work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy's coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.
Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what Publishers Weekly calls a "vibrant" and "powerful" work that "evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover."
Publisher: New Press
Published: 04/01/1994
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781565841628
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/1994 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 02/28/1994 pg. 73
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/1994 pg. 162
About the Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten novels, including Paradise (The New Press), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. He lives in Canterbury, England.