From the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.
Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal, and Abdulrazak Gurnah\'s most astonishing achievement..
Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power.
But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city.
When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college.
His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence.
When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed.
Tourists arrive, the island\'s white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution.
It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing.
Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors.
Salim has always known that his father does not want him.
From the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal
