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Gravel Heart

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Gravel Heart

By Abdulrazak Gurnah

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About the book

Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ParadiseSalim has always believed 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 memo...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration

Book details

ISBN

9781408881330

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Gravel Heart

Format

Paperback

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