Dottie
Dottie
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A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
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Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Gurnah is a master storyteller -- Aminatta Forna * Financial Times *
[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and lossHis intricate novels of arrival and departure … reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of history collide * Guardian *
Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth * The Times *
Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between things” that is astonishing, superb * Observer *
Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain * Spectator *
[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and lossHis intricate novels of arrival and departure … reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of history collide * Guardian *
Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth * The Times *
Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between things” that is astonishing, superb * Observer *
Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain * Spectator *
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781526653468 |
| ISBN 10 | 152665346X |
| Titre | Dottie |
| Auteur | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Année de publication | 2021-12-23 |
| Nombre de pages | 416 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |