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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781526603692 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823.92 |
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GUR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Gravel heart |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
261 p. ; |
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ill., |
| Dimensions |
20 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
499.00 |
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INR |
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| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict: longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into dishevelled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother explains neither this nor her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. |
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Absentee fathers |
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English fiction |
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Tanzanian authors |
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Fiction |
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New York times |
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Riveting |
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Booker prize |
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Author of paradise |
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Books |