Paradise
Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's fourth novel, a beautiful story of African life.
Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's fourth novel, a beautiful story of African life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747573999 (0747573999)
Publish date: November 15th 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 246
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...