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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