Paradise
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781565841635 (1565841638)
Publish date: May 1st 1995
Publisher: New Press, The
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Religion,
African Literature,
Race,
Islam
The best description I can give of this book is that it reads like a translation, even though it isn’t. There’s a certain flatness and distance to the writing that I associate with poor translations, and this turned out to be a book I had to push myself through. Fortunately, it’s short.Paradise is t...