Paradise

Synopsis

From the nobel prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an africa on the brink of colonization"[gurnah’s novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified east africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world. " —nobel committee for literature at the swedish academyshortlisted for the booker prize and the whitbread award, paradise was characterized by the nobel prize committee as abdulrazak gurnah’s “breakthrough” work.