Salim grows up in Zanzibar in a house where certain questions are never answered, and the silence around his parents' marriage follows him all the way to London.
Abdulrazak Gurnah, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, writes a quiet coming-of-age novel that moves between the aftermath of revolution on the island and the cold rooms of student life in England. Exile, obligation to family, and the long delay before an explanation finally arrives give the book its shape, and the prose is unhurried and exact.
Points worth noting:
• A novel by the 2021 Nobel laureate in literature
• Set between revolutionary Zanzibar and contemporary London
• Concerns of migration, silence, betrayal and belonging
• Measured literary prose with a late revelation at its centre
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