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Paradise is at once a story of a young boy's coming of age, the story of a continent on the verge of corruption by European colonialism, the story of African Islam meeting the rich pantheism of interior Africa, and a tragic love story. Paradise is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Denisen and William Boyd, but from a perspective never before available.
Paradise is at once a story of a young boy's coming of age, the story of a continent on the verge of corruption by European colonialism, the story of African Islam meeting the rich pantheism of interior Africa, and a tragic love story. Paradise is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Denisen and William Boyd, but from a perspective never before available.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of seven novels, which include PARADISE, shortlisted for both the...
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