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Author Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- author.

Title Paradise [Hoopla electronic resource] / Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Publication Info. [United States] : The New Press, 2022.
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Summary From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization. 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.
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Subject Enslaved children -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Father and child -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Colonies -- Africa -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Tanzania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Genre Bildungsromans.
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ISBN 9781620977507 (electronic bk.)
1620977508 (electronic bk.)
Music No. MWT14857406
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