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Pilgrims Way
- Author
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrator
- Ashley Zhangazha
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 21 July 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
‘Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision’ Evening Standard
‘Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness’ Daily Telegraph
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Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.
Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.
Critics Review
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Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the “balance between things” that is astonishing, superb
Observer
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[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss. His intricate novels of arrival and departure … reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of history collide
Guardian
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Gurnah is a master storyteller
Financial Times
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Gurnah etches with biting incisiveness the experiences of immigrants exposed to contempt, hostility or patronising indifference on their arrival in Britain
Spectator
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Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth
The Times
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Details
- Author
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrator
- Ashley Zhangazha
- Duration
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9781526656766
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Pilgrims Way by Abdulrazak Gurnah, read by Ashley Zhangazha.By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision’ Evening Standard‘Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness’ Daily Telegraph________________________Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.
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