Av: Gurnah, Abdulrazak 1948- (Författare/medförfattare)
Utgivningsår: 2002
Språk: Engelska
Medietyp: Bok
Genre: Romaner
Kategori: Skönlitteratur
Förlag: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9780747557852 0747552800 0747557853
Omfång: 245 s. 24 cm.
Innehållsbeskrivning On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.