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The breakthrough book from the highly acclaimed author of By the Sea

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Rich in detail and filled with acute observations, this novel movingly examines the absences eating away at the core of all of its characters * Sunday Telegraph *
As beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read ... Gurnah's portrait is the work of a maestro * Guardian *
This is an impressive and deeply serious book, a careful and often heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us * Sunday Times *
An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss ... Gurnah writes beautifully, with the satisfying assurance of someone who knows how to achieve his effects without undue fuss but with absolute precision * Daily Telegraph *

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A Paperback / softback by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 01/05/2006
    ISBN13: 9780747578956, 978-0747578956
    ISBN10: 0747578958
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The breakthrough book from the highly acclaimed author of By the Sea

    Trade Review
    Rich in detail and filled with acute observations, this novel movingly examines the absences eating away at the core of all of its characters * Sunday Telegraph *
    As beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read ... Gurnah's portrait is the work of a maestro * Guardian *
    This is an impressive and deeply serious book, a careful and often heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us * Sunday Times *
    An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss ... Gurnah writes beautifully, with the satisfying assurance of someone who knows how to achieve his effects without undue fuss but with absolute precision * Daily Telegraph *

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