BY THE SEA
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
**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.
2021年诺贝尔文学奖获得者，坦桑尼亚小说家阿卜杜勒拉萨克·古尔纳（Abdulrazak Gurnah）
阿卜杜勒拉萨克·古尔纳出生于1948年，1960年代移民到了英国。这位作家目前共出版十部小说，其代表作包括《天堂》（1994年）、《荒漠》（2005年）和海边（2001年）等，多次入围布克奖。
作为当今著名的后殖民作家和文学评论家之一，古尔纳结合自身经历，以非洲人的视角书写殖民历史，其作品聚焦于身份认同、社会破碎、种族冲突、性别压迫等主题，获得了国外学界广泛关注。
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