The Last Gift: By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

ISBN-13: 9781408821855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Opis

An astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home by the Booker-shortlisted author of Desertion

Recenzje

'Gurnah is a master storyteller ... A subtle and moving tale of a family coming to terms with itself: one to read at leisure and absorb at length' Aminatta Forna, Financial Times

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.