{"product_id":"admiring-silence-abdulrazak-gurnah-9781526653451","title":"Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"corrosively funny and relentless\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) tale of cultural identity and displacement, \u003ci\u003eAdmiring Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man's dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe unnamed narrator of this dazzling novel escapes from Zanzibar to England knowing that he will probably never return. In his new country, things are not quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, and he quickly forgets how it feels to belong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when he meets a beautiful, rebellious woman named Emma, and when Emma, turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child, the narrator chooses to hide his past from his new family and his present circumstance from his family back in Zanzibar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is 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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abdulrazak Gurnah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526653451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526653451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Abdulrazak Gurnah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053725577471,"sku":"9781526653451","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_992e38b2-74a1-4c93-999d-b7cb98e2449a.jpg?v=1685025915","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/admiring-silence-abdulrazak-gurnah-9781526653451","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}