Eventually, I found his famous novels in a souvenir shop in his home town that mostly sold skin-care products.
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Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.
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Gurnah’s novels delve deeply into family separation, endless betrayals of core familial relations, and the inexorable pull of the lost past.
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s stories suggest that it is important to see others in relation to ourselves, to perceive their right of abode even if they cannot claim national belonging.
Gurnah won the prize for his “uncompromising and compassionate” look at the “effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugees”.
The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends.
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