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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Bloomsbury Publishing, New Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French, rum
- ISBN
- 9781526653260
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**Abdulrazak Gurnah** FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; Desertion (2005); and By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". He is Emeritus Profe
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