Desertion: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

ISBN-13: 9780747578956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Opis

The breakthrough book from the highly acclaimed author of By the Sea

Recenzje

Rich in detail and filled with acute observations, this novel movingly examines the absences eating away at the core of all of its characters Sunday Telegraph

O autorze

Gurnah, AbdulrazakAbdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.