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
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten 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) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.
Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between
things” that is astonishing, superb
*Observer*
[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant,
and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss. His intricate novels of
arrival and departure … reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the
lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of
history collide
*Guardian*
Gurnah is a master storyteller
*Financial Times*
Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of
immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising
indifference on their arrival in Britain
*Spectator*
Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and
he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth
*The Times*
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