Admiring silence
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Published
London : Bloomsbury, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 20 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Gurnah, A
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Fiction Gurnah, A
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Published
London : Bloomsbury, 2021.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
Description
"A "corrosively funny and relentless" (The New York Times) tale of cultural identity and displacement, Admiring Silence is the story of a man's dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England. The unnamed narrator of this dazzling novel 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."--,Provided by publisher.
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