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Mit fesselnder Erzählkunst entfaltet der Autor komplexe Geschichten, die tief in menschliche Emotionen und kulturelle Identitäten eintauchen. Die Charaktere sind vielschichtig und authentisch, was zu einem eindringlichen Leseerlebnis führt. Themen wie Migration, Identität und das Streben nach Zugehörigkeit werden kunstvoll beleuchtet, während die Erzählung gleichzeitig die Herausforderungen und Schönheiten des Lebens reflektiert. Gurnahs Werke bieten nicht nur Unterhaltung, sondern auch wertvolle Einblicke in die menschliche Erfahrung.

Set in Tanzania at the turn of the twenty-first century, the story follows three young individuals navigating their futures amid rapid global change. Karim returns home with newfound ambition, capturing the attention of Fauzia, who seeks an escape from her restrictive upbringing. Together, they offer support to Badar, a boy grappling with uncertainty about his future. As their lives intertwine, they confront the challenges and opportunities brought by modernization, ultimately exploring the meaning of self-determination in a transforming world.

'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee Delivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing' is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Collected here with three further essays, it explores his coming-of-age, his early experiences in 1960s Britain, the narratives of oceans, his lifelong love affair with reading, and the power of writing to subvert the stories that have been handed to us. Generous, funny and wise, this collection is the perfect introduction to the storyteller described as 'one of Africa's most important living writers'; whose work, now spanning four decades, continues to spin wonder and magic while offering penetrating insight into exile, migration and homecoming. 'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact' Maaza Mengiste 'A wondrous writer' Philippe Sands

A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain. At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.

A man returns to his native Zanzibar after years of exile in England, and must come to terms with the changes both in him and in his childhood home.

Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life

BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021 "Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure." --Maaza Mengiste, Guardian "A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer." --Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away... "Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment."--The Times

Sessizliğe Hayranlık, etnisite, ırk, cinsiyet ve ulus meselelerini çokkatmanlı bir anlatıyla ele alan bir başyapıt. Sessizliğe Hayranlık’ın sessiz ve isimsiz anlatıcısı, üniversite öğrenimi için geldiği İngiltere’de yerleşip aile kurmasına karşın yıllardır aidiyet sorunu yaşamaktadır. Bu sorunu anavatanı Zanzibar’a dönerek çözmeyi deneyen “sessiz anlatıcı”, anavatanında karşılaştığı ruhsal ve manevi engellerle birlikte sorunun mekânla veya coğrafyayla sınırlı olmadığını anlayacaktır. Kuşaktan kuşağa devrolan bir kimlik ve aidiyet sorununu sınırları ve milliyetleri kateden bir anlatı içinde sunan Sessizliğe Hayranlık insanlığın evrensel ütopyasına yönelik bir umut kıvılcımı. “Abdulrazak Gurnah’ın bugünkü Afrika romanının önde gelen temsilcilerinden biri olduğunu düşünüyorum.” Murat Belge “Irk, ihanet ve kimlik meselelerini böylesine güçlü ve satirik bir içgörüyle sunan çok az roman var.” Carolıne Gascoıgne

A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise. Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal, and Abdulrazak Gurnah's most astonishing achievement.