Gravel Heart: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Book Overview

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163973001X
• ISBN13: 9781639730018
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"