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Paradise

by Abdulrazak Gurnah · 1994

Literary Fiction · ranked #153 in category

Yusuf is taken by his merchant father as payment of a debt to the wealthy trader Uncle Aziz, and travels with him through East Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. Gurnah's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel draws on the Quranic story of the Garden of Eden and Joseph and his brothers, examining colonialism, slavery and the African world the European encounter destroyed.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1994 · 1990s
Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Standing
Essential Read

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