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Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's fourth novel, a beautiful story of African life.

Trade Review
Many layered, violent, beautiful and strange ... a poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown * Independent on Sunday *
An aural archive of a lost Africa ... Tangling travel adventures, social documentary, political indictment and a doomed love story ... Paradise is alive with the unexpected. In it, an obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved * Sunday Times *
Gurnah evokes his world in poetic prose which is pure and lucid - a small paradise in itself ... The pleasures, sadnesses and losses in all the shining facets of this book are lingering and exquisite * Guardian *
Paradise is that rare thing, a novel that is totally convincing in the vivid physical world it presents, yet transcending that world and reaching into the universal. Folk tale, travel story, drama of love and loss, by turns touching and horrifying, it is a novel to be grateful for * Barry Unsworth *
A gently meandering coming-of-age tale -- Michaela Wong * Spectator, Books of the Year *

Paradise

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 15 November 2004
      ISBN-13 9780747573999
      978-0747573999
      ISBN-10 0747573999
      Also in:
      Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah's fourth novel, a beautiful story of African life.

      Trade Review
      Many layered, violent, beautiful and strange ... a poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown * Independent on Sunday *
      An aural archive of a lost Africa ... Tangling travel adventures, social documentary, political indictment and a doomed love story ... Paradise is alive with the unexpected. In it, an obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved * Sunday Times *
      Gurnah evokes his world in poetic prose which is pure and lucid - a small paradise in itself ... The pleasures, sadnesses and losses in all the shining facets of this book are lingering and exquisite * Guardian *
      Paradise is that rare thing, a novel that is totally convincing in the vivid physical world it presents, yet transcending that world and reaching into the universal. Folk tale, travel story, drama of love and loss, by turns touching and horrifying, it is a novel to be grateful for * Barry Unsworth *
      A gently meandering coming-of-age tale -- Michaela Wong * Spectator, Books of the Year *

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