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Laddar... By the Sea (2001)av Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. "La crudeza del exilio según Abdulrazak Gurnah", El País 04.08.20222: https://elpais.com/babelia/2022-08-04/la-crudeza-del-exilio-segun-abdulrazak-gur... Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize for literature. I requested this book from the library when the winner was announced, and it finally came! I had not heard of Gurnah before the prize was announced--even though he writes in English and lives in England. This book though, wow. Probably 4.5 stars? I found the very last explanation to be a bit dull, when it could have been big and angry and bitter. The novel is very slow, as two men--one 65 is old enough to be the other's father--explains why he is using the name of the other's father. How he came to be requesting asylum at age 65. The younger man made it to London before age 20 and never contacted his family back in their country of origin (Tanzania, specifically Zanzibar). No spoilers! Abdulrazak gurnah, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021. Huyendo de la mítica isla de Zanzíbar, tierra de mercaderes de perfumes y especias acunada por los monzones, Saleh Omar, un comerciante de 65 años, llega al aeropuerto de Gatwick con una caja de caoba llena de incienso y un pasaporte falso. Para comunicarse con él, los servicios sociales recurren a Latif Mahmud, un poeta experto en suajili, profesor y exiliado voluntario que vive apaciblemente en un apartamento de Londres. Cuando los dos hombres se encuentran en una pequeña ciudad junto al mar, una larga historia de amores y traiciones, seducciones y decepción, azarosos desplazamientos y litigios iniciada mucho tiempo atrás empieza a desenmarañarse. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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En m©œrk novemberdag anl©Þnder Saleh Omar till Gatwick. I Zanzibar var han make, far, hade en m©œbelaff©Þr. Nu s©œker han asyl, p©Æ flykt fr©Æn paradiset, och tystnaden ©Þr hans enda skydd. I London finns Latif Mahmud, en man med kopplingar till Salehs f©œrflutna, och n©Þr Saleh och Latif sedan m©œts i en engelsk kuststad avsl©œjas en historia som rymmer b©Æde k©Þrlek och svek. Bookernominerade "Vid havet" ©Þr en av Abdulrazak Gurnahs mest hyllade romaner, en ber©Þttelse om flykt och l©Þngtan, om kampen f©œr att hitta n©Ægot slags hem i en v©Þrld d©Þr inget best©Ær.[Bokinfo] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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published: 2001
format: 245-page paperback
acquired: 2009 read: Feb 11-20 time reading: 11:09, 2.7 mpp
rating: 4
genre/style: contemporary fiction theme: TBR
locations: England and Zanzibar
about the author: born 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. Fled to England after the Zanzibar Revolution in 1968. Now a retired professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Kent.
This is my third novel by Gurnah, and I certainly now see patterns. Each book has covered a different era in Tanzania, but this is a sort of hidden feature. We learn about this part of the world, but it's never the focus of the book. Gurnah writes about characters and interactions, within the context of this world of Zanzibar and its surrounds. He loves the complicated financial dealings: trading, borrowing, taking risks, the calculations, patience and impatience, the tensions and emotions. And he loves just spending time, wasting time, enjoying wasting time. His novels always make room to sit and enjoy the moment. And the overarching trend is the graceful kindnesses amidst his story tensions. Even when bad characters are doing bad things, intentionally, and they still yet have this cultural overlay, a kind of banter and caring, and it humanizes them in such unexpected ways...in such ways we just don't see in our own lives, but we could.
This is supposed to be a book review. This novel is about an intellectual in England, Latif Mahmud, who confronts a recently arrived refugee from his home country, a refugee using his father's name. The old man he finds, a kindly weak old man, brings him some of his own history, much unpleasant. They meet, they confront, they share tea, and bards, and they tell stories. It's really a beautiful book. And the reader, thinking about these men and their stories, happens to see a window into Tanzania just before and then after independence, a brutal independence.
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I copied down some quotes.
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Latif to the old man:
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The old man to Latif:
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