By the Sea

Beschreibung

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE<BR><BR>'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times<BR><BR>'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times<BR><BR>On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense.

He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. <BR><BR>Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

Angaben vom Händler.