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Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.


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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah nasceu em 1948 em Zanzibar.Na década de 1960, abandonou o seu país, então a braços com uma revolução, e rumou ao Reino Unido. Foi professor de Literatura Inglesa na Universidade de Kent em Canterbury, onde vive actualmente. A sua obra versa sobre a experiência africana, o colonialismo e o refugiado, e nela se destacam os romances Paraíso (1994), finalista do Booker Prize e do Whitbread Award; Junto ao Mar (2001), nomeado…

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