{"product_id":"paradise-9781565841635","title":"Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[Gurnah’s novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.\" —Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, \u003cem\u003eParadise\u003c\/em\u003e was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf’s eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e calls a “vibrant” and “powerful” work that “evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abdulrazak Gurnah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960885776502,"sku":"9781565841635","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c1b85f18-4f25-4e4d-b0d5-acf8c22b8a3f.jpg?v=1767856419","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/paradise-9781565841635","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}