Abdulrazak Gurnah

Broschiertes Buch

Desertion

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Beschreibung

Desertion

Autor

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781526656117
• ISBN-10: 1526656116
• Artikelnr.: 75368251

Rezensionen

Rich in detail and filled with acute observations, this novel movingly examines the absences eating away at the core of all of its characters