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The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

Gurnah, Abdulrazak

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1639730001
ISBN13: 9781639730001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, an astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home.

Abbas has never told anyone about his past-before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a drugstore in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to.

Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark blue eyes and her own complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother, Maryam, who has never thought to find herself-until now.

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