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- The Last Gift is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It is Gurnah's eighth novel and was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011. The plot centres on Abbas, an immigrant from east Africa living in England, who reflects on his past after he has a stroke.
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Apr 8, 2014 · In The Last Gift, Abbas, the main character, has never told his secrets, until a debilitating stroke unblocks the dam of his silences and the memories won’t stop. Abbas’ wife, son, and daughter learn about their father’s childhood in Zanzibar from their comfortable small home in England.
May 1, 2011 · The last gift is the tape recorded story of Abbas’ early life and exile previously unknown to the family. Narration is third person, but situated in turn in the consciousness of each of the four characters often for extended scenes, and includes their internal dialogues.
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Feb 17, 2022 · Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home,...
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
- 1526656094, 9781526656094
6 days ago · The Last Gift helps explain by Gurnah was awarded to Nobel Prize, an inevitable question when the prize goes to a writer who is not widely recognized—why Gurnah of so many possibilities? This novel addresses issues that are likely to become even more prevalent in the future as many more people become uprooted from the places of their origins ...
Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother Maryam, who began life as a foundling and has never thought to find ...
May 3, 2011 · The Last Gift. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Bloomsbury Publishing, May 3, 2011 - Fiction - 279 pages. Abbas has never told anyone about his past - before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter,...
