Лучшие книги Абдулразака Гурны

Действие романа разворачивается в колониальной Африке в то время, когда английские захватчики вытесняют туземцев с их земли, а немцы планируют строительство железной дороги через весь континент. Отец Юсуфа продает сына в рабство в уплату долгов. Сначала Юсуф попадает в лавку новоиспеченного хозяина, а после отправляется в путешествие по стране вместе с торговым караваном. Крах прежнего мира, межплеменные войны, суеверия, вопросы рабства и внутренней свободы глазами мальчика, вкупе с проблемами взросления и запретной любви, подсвечивают читателю плотное полотно, в которое Африка кутает свою красоту и жестокость. Абдулразак Гурна —…

Незадолго до Первой мировой судьба сводит главных героев на Восточном побережье Африки. Хамза и Ильяс служат на стороне немецких солдат — и возвращаются домой. Афия находится на попечении строгой семьи, где ее истязают за умение читать. Пути молодых людей пересекаются, они пытаются строить обычную жизнь, но тень грядущей войны грозит разрушить хрупкий мир.

Бессмысленная злоба и непростые отношения угнетателей и угнетаемых, глубокая любовь, жестокость и последствия колониальной политики — в новом романе нобелевского лауреата по литературе 2021 года.

«Посмертие» получило широкое признание благодаря описанию малоизученной темы жизни африканцев, похищенных для борьбы за Европу. На русском языке издается впервые.

Об узнике тайны, который стремится к освобождению.

1970-е годы, Занзибар забывает о недавнем конфликте, начинается время перемен. Отец Салима ушел из семьи и отгородился от сына ледяным молчанием. Его мать начала видеться с другим мужчиной и родила дочь. Тишина породила ощущение обмана, а незаданные вопросы остались без ответов. С грузом семейных тайн, болью отвержения и надеждой увидеть большой мир Салим едет в Лондон, чтобы получить образование и вернуть долг, о котором он ещё не знает.

Аббас никогда не говорил о своем прошлом. О том, что было до того, как он стал моряком. До того, как встретил любимую женщину Мариам. До того, как зажил спокойной жизнью. Все это «до» окутано мрачным молчанием. Жена и дети устали задавать вопросы. Но теперь, после перенесенного инсульта, он прикован к постели. И наступило время рассказать, что же произошло и почему он молчал. Новый роман английского писателя танзанийского происхождения Абдулразака Гурны — нобелевского лауреата по литературе 2021 года.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of eight novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize), and The Last Gift. He is a Professor of

In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and is rescued by Hassanali, a shopkeeper whose beautiful sister Rehana nurses Pearce back to health. Pearce and Rehana begin a passionate illicit love affair, which resonates fifty years later when the narrator’s brother falls madly in love with Rehana’s granddaughter. In the story of two forbidden love affairs and their effects on the lovers’ families, Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatizes the personal and political consequences of colonialism, the vicissitudes of love, and the power of fiction.

"Refugee", I said, pointing at my chest. "Asylum". When Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport late one afternoon, he has a badly faked passport and exhibits no knowledge of English beyond these two words. He was once a furniture shop owner, a husband, and a father. Now he has arrived in England seeking asylum from his native Zanzibar, using silence and claiming ignorance as his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a poet and professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat, bitter about the country and family he has left behind and never revisited. When the two men meet in a small English seaside town, there begins the unraveling of a feud from long ago -- a story of seduction and deception, of the haphazard displacement of people.This is a profoundly moving and eloquent look into the minds of two immigrants, two "others", who have left one home by the sea and gone halfway around the world to take up residence in another. Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novel Paradise was short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize, has created a stunning and elegiac look at a world where imperialism opens boundaries -- only to close off borders.

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother, who would then approach you. Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies. Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature 'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times 'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' Independent on Sunday He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.

The debut novel by the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother's rightful share of the family inheritance. The collision of past secrets and future hopes, the compound of fear and frustration, beauty and brutality, create a fierce tale of undeniable power.

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain. At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of seven novels which include Paradise (shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prizes), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the RFI Temoin du monde prize) and Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize).
One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away with

This second book of essays reappraising literary criticism to date and challenging readers' assumptions includes: C. L. Innes on Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo; Belinda Jack on Assia Djebar; Lucy Stone McNeece on Tahar Ben Jelloun; Stewart Brown on contemporary Nigerian poetry; Hangson-Mpalive Msiska on Malawian poetry; Abdulrazak Gurnah on Dambudzo Marechera; Caroline Rooney on Chenjerai Hove's Bones and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Ato Quayson on Ben Okri; and Neloufer De Mel on Moyez Vassanji.