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02673aam a2200433 i 4500 001 5195374E6D2E11ECB3EC20C24FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220104011630 008 170824t20182017enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 163973001X 020 $a 9781639730018 020 $a 1408881330 020 $a 9781408881330 020 $a 1408881306 020 $a 9781408881309 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9399.9.G87 $b G73 2018 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Gurnah, Abdulrazak, $d 1948- $e author. 245 10 $a Gravel heart / $c Abdulrazak Gurnah. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2018. 300 $a 261 pages ; $c 20 cm. 520 $a Salim has always known 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--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal. 650 0 $a English fiction $x Tanzanian authors. 650 0 $a Tanzanians $z London $z London $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $x Cultural assimilation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Absentee fathers $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Zanzibar $x Politics and government $y 1964- $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Zanzibar $x History $y Revolution, 1964 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629014830.0 952 $l FTPA274 $d 20221101012551.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220104013541.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5195374E6D2E11ECB3EC20C24FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search