Fiction – Literary – Historical – World Literature – East Africa

RELEASE DATE: 3/18/2025 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition. Fauzia glimpses in him a chance at escape from a smothering upbringing. The two of them offer a haven to Badar, a poor boy still unsure if the future holds anything for him at all. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, bringing, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.

AUTHOR BIO:
Abdulrazak Gurnahis the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of nine previous novels, includingParadise(shortlisted for the Booker Prize),By the Sea(longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), andDesertion.Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. He lives in Canterbury, England.

“At once culturally specific and emotionally universal. . . Gurnah is at the top of his game.”-Publishers Weekly,STARRED review