Praise for Abdulrazak Gurnah: ''Gurnah gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure

MAAZA MENGISTE, GUARDIAN

A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer

PHILIPPE SANDS, NEW STATESMAN, Books of the year

Gurnah is a master storyteller

AMINATTA FORNA, FINANCIAL TIMES

Confirms Gurnah's place among the outstanding stylists of modern English prose ... This is a novel that demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision of the infinite contradictions of human nature

EVENING STANDARD

As beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read ... The work of a maestro

GUARDIAN

A powerfully evocative oeuvre that keeps coming back to the same questions, in spare, graceful prose, about the ties that bind and the ties that fray

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