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| #597547 in Books | New Press, The | 1995-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.54 x5.51l,.69 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Flat and dull|By E. Smiley|The best description I can give of this book is that it reads like a translation, even though it isn't. There's a certain flatness and distance to the writing that I associate with poor translations, and this turned out to be a book I had to push myself through. Fortunately, it's short.
Paradise is the story of an adolescent boy, Yusuf, in|From Publishers Weekly|Gurnah's powerful, ironically titled story evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover by the European powers. Set in Colonial East Africa as English invaders drive natives off the land a
A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England’s highest honor for works of fiction, Paradise is at once the story 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 the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf’s eyes, Gurnah depi...
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