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Admiring silence
Admiring silence | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Roman om de konflikter og identitetskriser, som rammer indvandrere. Fortlleren er en lrer fra Zanzibar, gift med en englnder, og bosat i London. Efter mange r genser han sit hjemland, og kollisionen mellem det liv, han mder der, og livet i London, fr hans tilvrelse til at krakelere.
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Michellesibs
Admiring silence | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Mehso-so

I've just finished this novel and realised that I never knew our protagonists name, flicking back through the pages I don't think we are ever told.

We do know he is in his forties, he teaches in the UK and has a failing heart. We also know his family in Zanzibar have no idea he lives with an English woman and has a 17 year old daughter.

This feels very much like a character study, how silence can wrap itself around unsaid words and snowball.

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Dilara
Admiring silence | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Over the years, I'd wishlisted several novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah, but his winning the Nobel Prize was the impetus I needed to actually download one and start reading.

(picture of the Old Town of Zanzibar City courtesy of Wikimedia)

#NobelPrize #Tanzania #Zanzibar #BlackInEurope

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Cydster61
Admiring silence | Abdulrazak Gurnah
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On the ferry to Martha's Vineyard to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. (Hubby is on deck in the rain in January like a good Navy man raised on the water.)

TrishB Sounds fab 😀 enjoy 🍸 8y
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