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At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition. Fauzia glimpses in him a chance at escape from a smothering upbringing. The two of them offer a haven to Badar, a poor boy still unsure if the future holds anything for him at all. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, bringing, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.

Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his ‘uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.

Gurnahs bewegender Coming-of-Age-Roman über Verrat und Migration als Hörbuch. Salim ist sieben und ein kleiner Träumer. Sein Leben ruht auf einigen scheinbar unerschütterlichen Säulen: der täglichen Routine von Schule und Koranunterricht, den geliebten Büchern und seinem angebeteten Onkel, der sich ihm – anders als sein Vater – nicht ständig entzieht. Aber es sind die 1970er-Jahre und folglich keine guten Zeiten für Träumer, denn der Geist des Wandels fegt über Sansibar.

De nieuwe roman van Abdulrazak Gurnah, winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur: een betoverende, zinderende vertelling over meerdere generaties die gevormd werden door de Duitse koloniale overheersing in Oost-Afrika Het is het begin van de twintigste eeuw. Westerse mogendheden hebben in Afrika hun kaarten getekend, verdragen ondertekend en het continent opgedeeld. Door hun streven naar complete overheersing zien ze zich gedwongen om opstand na opstand neer te slaan.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.

Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce años, le dicen que vivirá con su tío Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empeñado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajará por África central y las riberas del Congo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial.

Salim è un bambino intelligente, amante dei libri, e ha sempre saputo di essere un figlio indesiderato per suo padre Masud. Così è cresciuto affascinato dallo zio Amir, un uomo brillante ed estroverso, che vive con loro in una casa piena di segreti che alimentano gli incubi notturni del ragazzo. Sono gli anni ’70 e Zanzibar sta cambiando volto: l’arrivo dei turisti sulle spiagge bianche dell’isola offusca rapidamente la memoria dell’indipendenza dal Regno Unito e della rivoluzione che ha dato un nuovo assetto al paese.

Ilyas ist elf, als er aus Not sein bitterarmes Zuhause an der ostafrikanischen Küste verlässt und von einem Soldaten der deutschen Kolonialtruppen zwangsrekrutiert wird. Jahre später kehrt er in sein Dorf zurück, doch seine Eltern sind tot. Ilyas macht sich auf die Suche nach seiner kleinen Schwester Afiya, die bei Verwandten untergekommen ist, wo sie wie eine Sklavin gehalten wird und niemand ihre Talente sehen will. Auch ein anderer junger Mann kehrt nach Hause zurück.

Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island’s white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict—the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into dishevelled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change.

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, the barriers come down in Zanzibar and he is able and compelled to go back.

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.

Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce—writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali's sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated.

Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, given away. Hamza was not stolen but was sold; he has come of age in the army, at the right hand of an officer whose control has ensured his protection but marked him for life. Hamza does not have words for how the war ended for him. Returning to the town of his childhood, all he wants is work, however humble and security - and the beautiful Afiya.

When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of East Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes on his back—until he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya.

Een coming-of-age-verhaal dat de hardheid en tegelijk de schoonheid belicht van een Afrika op de rand van kolonisatie. Yusuf, geboren in Oost-Afrika, staat niet lang stil bij de reis die hij gaat maken. Het komt niet in hem op om te vragen waarom hij oom Aziz vergezelt of waarom het vertrek zo plotseling is georganiseerd, of wanneer hij überhaupt terug zal keren. De waarheid is dat zijn 'oom' een rijke en machtige koopman is en dat Yusuf aan hem is verpand om de schulden van zijn vader af te betalen.

Sansibar in den frühen 1950er-Jahren: Inmitten politischer Umwälzungen und Aufständen gegen die Kolonialherren wachsen die Geschwister Amin, Rashid und Farida auf. Amin, der Mittlere der Brüder, verliebt sich in Jamila, doch beider Leidenschaft zerbricht schon bald am Widerstand seiner Familie und Gerüchten um die Vergangenheit der jungen Frau. Es heißt, ein Fluch liege auf ihrer Verwandtschaft. Im Strudel der Revolution trennen sich die Lebenswege der Geschwister. Rashid beginnt ein Studium in London, das Schicksal von Amin und Jamila lässt ihn aber selbst in der Ferne nicht los.

Huyendo de la mítica isla de Zanzíbar, tierra de mercaderes de perfumes y especias acunada por los monzones, Saleh Omar, un comerciante de 65 años, llega al aeropuerto de Gatwick con una caja de caoba llena de incienso y un pasaporte falso. Para comunicarse con él, los servicios sociales recurren a Latif Mahmud, un poeta experto en suajili, profesor y exiliado voluntario que vive apaciblemente en un apartamento de Londres.

Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence.

On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. 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.

Generous, funny and wise, this collection is the perfect introduction to the storyteller described as ‘one of Africa’s most important living writers’; whose work, now spanning four decades, continues to spin wonder and magic while offering penetrating insight into exile, migration and homecoming.