Synopsis
A moving story about exile, love and betrayal, from the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Fleeing the mythical island of Zanzibar, a land of perfume and spice merchants cradled by the monsoons, Saleh Omar, a 65-year-old merchant, arrives at Gatwick airport with a mahogany box full of incense and a fake passport. To communicate with him, social services turn to Latif Mahmud, a poet, expert in Swahili, teacher and voluntary exile who lives peacefully in a London apartment. When the two men meet in a small town by the sea, a long story of love and betrayal, seduction and deception, random displacements and litigation that began a long time ago begins to unravel.
About the book
On March 24, Salamandra will publish On the Seashore, one of the most emblematic works of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The novel will go on sale the same day also in Catalan, published by La Magrana under the title A la vora de la mar.
By the Sea is Abdulrazak Gurnah’s sixth novel, it was selected for the prestigious Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and remains one of the most moving stories ever written about the effects of European colonization, the experience of exile and the feeling of guilt that this usually entails.
Sixth novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, By the Sea was selected for the prestigious Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and remains one of the most moving stories ever written about the effects of European colonization. the experience of exile and the feeling of guilt that it usually entails.
Thanks to the seductive cadence of his prose, his biting irony and the masterful combination of the point of view of the two protagonists, Abdulrazak Gurnah offers us a captivating mosaic of ancient cultures – Indian, Arab, Persian and African -, at the same time that it immerses us in the abysses of one of the most traumatic and devastating experiences.
Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/a-orillas-del-mar
