Tag: Abulrazak
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Paradise: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Portrait of Memory, Colonialism, and Human Resilience
Reading Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, is an experience that is at once moving and unsettling. The novel takes us into East Africa at the turn of the twentieth century, a time when trade routes, cultural exchanges, and the growing shadow of European colonialism were reshaping entire societies….