Paradise
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781565841628 (156584162X)
Publish date: April 1st 1994
Publisher: New Press
Pages no: 247
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...