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Author:

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-, author.

Title:

By the sea / / Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Edition:

First large print edition.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

380 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--England--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Political refugees--England--Fiction.
College teachers--England--Fiction.
Tanzanians--England--Fiction.
Deception--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Large type books.
Zanzibar--History--20th century--Fiction.
Political fiction.

Other Authors:

Forna, Aminatta.

Notes:

"First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, in 2001. First United States edition published in hardcover by The New Press, New York, in 2001"--Title page verso. This edition with a new afterword by Aminatta Forna.

Summary:

"Back in Zanzibar, Saleh Omar had a furniture shop, owned a house, was a husband and father. Now, newly arrived at London's Gatwick Airport, he is just another asylum seeker. A mahogany box of fragrant ud is his most precious possession, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their shared past begin to unravel -- revealing an infinitely more fascinating story of love and betrayal, of seduction and possession, of people struggling for stability amid the maelstrom of their times."--Back cover.

ISBN:

0593633660
9780593633663

Locations:

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)