Gravel heart
Description
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise.
Subjects
Subjects
Absentee fathers
Absentee fathers -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Cultural assimilation
History
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Immigrants
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Politics and government
Tanzanians
Tanzanians -- England -- London -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964 -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- Politics and government -- 1964- -- Fiction
Absentee fathers -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Cultural assimilation
History
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Immigrants
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Politics and government
Tanzanians
Tanzanians -- England -- London -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964 -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- Politics and government -- 1964- -- Fiction
More Details
ISBN:
9781408881330
9781639730018
9781408881309
9781639730018
9781408881309
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| Grouping Title | gravel heart |
| Grouping Author | abdulrazak gurnah |
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| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-11 11:02:17AM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-04-23 05:51:01AM |
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Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
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Ashland Adult Fiction
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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 longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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Absentee fathers -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Tanzanians -- England -- London -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964 -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- Politics and government -- 1964- -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Tanzanians -- England -- London -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964 -- Fiction
Zanzibar -- Politics and government -- 1964- -- Fiction
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Gravel heart
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Gravel heart / Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Gravel heart
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Absentee fathers
Cultural assimilation
History
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Immigrants
Politics and government
Tanzanians
Cultural assimilation
History
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Immigrants
Politics and government
Tanzanians
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