From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization
Gurnah’s novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world. —Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee […]