{"product_id":"admiring-silence-abdulrazak-gurnah","title":"Admiring Silence (Abdulrazak Gurnah)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_____________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThings do not happen quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAbdulrazak Gurnah \u003c\/b\u003eis the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author   of ten novels: \u003ci\u003eMemory of Departure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePilgrims Way\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDottie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted   for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), \u003ci\u003eAdmiring Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBy   the Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the\u003ci\u003e Los   Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Award), \u003ci\u003eDesertion \u003c\/i\u003e(shortlisted   for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) \u003ci\u003eThe Last Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGravel Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfterlives\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65760053166429,"sku":"K094973043","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9497304300001A.jpg?v=1788212966","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/admiring-silence-abdulrazak-gurnah","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}