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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- author.     Subjects     Tanzanians -- England -- London -- Fiction.     Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.     Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction.     Absentee fathers -- Fiction.     Zanzibar -- Politics and government -- 1964- -- Fiction.     Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964 -- Fiction.     London (England) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- author.       by title:      Gravel heart / Abdul...         MARC Display

Gravel heart / Abdulrazak Gurnah. by Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- author. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Subjects Tanzanians -- England -- London -- Fiction.   Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.   Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction.   Absentee fathers -- Fiction.   Zanzibar -- Politics and government -- 1964- -- Fiction.   Zanzibar -- History -- Revolution, 1964 -- Fiction.   London (England) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781639730018 (paperback) : 163973001X (paperback) : Description:  261 pages ; 20 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  Salim has always known that his father does not want him. 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. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. 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. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. 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. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Gurnah (pbk) Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Ewa Beach P/S Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked out 05/08/2024 Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Fiction Gurnah   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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