**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times_______________On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.
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- Authors:
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Year Published:
- 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780747557852
- Number of Pages:
- 256
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 08/07/2002
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780747557852