# Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 - Hardcover

by **Abdulrazak Gurnah** (Author)

**From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization**

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, _Paradise_ 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.

Sold 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 _Publishers Weekly_ calls a "vibrant" and "powerful" work that "evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover."

### Author Biography

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of ten novels, including _Paradise_ (The New Press), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. He lives in Canterbury, England.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN

**Publication Date:** April 01, 1994

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