Title Paradise / Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Publication Info.	New York : The New Press, [1994].
	New York, NY : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
	©1994.

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East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	F GURNAH ABDULRAZAK	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	FIC GURN	DUE 05-09-24
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction	F GURNAH ABDULRAZAK	Check Shelf

Description	246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
Subject	Tanzania. (OCoLC)fst01210143
Indexed Term	Colonies Fiction
Subject	Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
	Slave trade -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Africa, East. (OCoLC)fst01239511
Indexed Term	Tanzania Fiction
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject	Tanzania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Bildungsromans.
Subject	Colonies -- Fiction.
	Colonization. (OCoLC)fst00868483
	Father and child. (OCoLC)fst00921829
	Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
	Colonies. (OCoLC)fst00868456
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
Subject	Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Tanzania -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Bildungsromans.
	Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Colonies -- Africa -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Subject	Enslaved children. (OCoLC)fst00854675
Local Subject	Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Bildungsromans.
Subject	Father and child -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Indexed Term	Boys Fiction
Subject	Enslaved children -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN	156584162X (hardcover)
	9781565841628 (hardcover)
	1565841638 (paperback)
	9781565841635 (paperback)

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