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From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah's "breakthrough" work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy's coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism. Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what Publishers Weekly calls a "vibrant" and "powerful" work that "evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover." |
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Tanzania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Coming of age -- Fiction.
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Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Colonies -- Africa -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Father and child -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Enslaved children -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Slave trade -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781620977507 (electronic book) |
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1620977508 (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14857406 |
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