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Paradise

Abdulrazak Gurnah

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#3028 of 8,085 books · #446 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1994).

Paradise was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker and Whitbread Prizes. This book is set in the decade before World War I, in the garden of a merchant's house on the coast of East Africa. Yusuf is 12 when he is sold into the service of the rich, perfumed merchant whom he has always known as uncle Aziz.

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13
9782207165157
Topics
Coming of ageColonialismSlavery and servitude

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