{"product_id":"admiring-silence-by-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2021-9781526653451","title":"Admiring Silence: By the winner of the Nobel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e_____________________\u003c\/b\u003e He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.  Things do not happen quite as he imagined – the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family.   Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don’t think I’ve ever read a novel that is \u003cb\u003eso convincingly and hauntingly\u003c\/b\u003e sad about the loss of home, the impossible \u003cb\u003elonging to belong\u003c\/b\u003e -- Michèle Roberts * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eAbdulrazak Gurnah’s fifth novel, \u003ci\u003eAdmiring Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, is \u003cb\u003ehis best to date\u003c\/b\u003e … There is a \u003cb\u003ewonderful sardonic eloquence \u003c\/b\u003eto this unnamed narrator’s voice, and the \u003cb\u003eplayful humour and lack of self-pity\u003c\/b\u003e which characterises his narrative is \u003cb\u003etotally convincing\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThrough a \u003cb\u003etwisting, many-layered\u003c\/b\u003e narrative, \u003ci\u003eAdmiring Silence \u003c\/i\u003eexplores themes of race and betrayal with bitterly \u003cb\u003esatirical insight\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409843921239,"sku":"9781526653451","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526653451.jpg?v=1730508213","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/admiring-silence-by-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2021-9781526653451","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}