Author: Abdulrazak GurnahÂ
Synopsis:Â
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.
Description
Publisher:Â Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:Â 9780747557852
Number of pages:Â 256
Weight:Â 186 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 508 mm