Gravel heart
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-2018
Book
Total copies: 5
Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1970s to restless London in the 1990s, 'Gravel Heart' is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'Paradise Salim' 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 memory of recent conflict: longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution.
Main title:
Gravel heart / Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Author:
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.©2017
Collation:
261 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.
ISBN:
9781408881309 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Local class:
FIC/GUR
Language:
English
BRN:
2647488