by Abdulrazak Gurnah · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419013033
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«A la vora de la mar» is the contemporary novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, published by La Magrana in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
Saleh Omar flees Zanzibar and arrives at Gatwick with a mahogany box full of incense and a false passport. Social services turn to Latif Mahmud, a poet and exile in London. When the two meet in a coastal town, a story of loves, betrayals and displacements begun years earlier unravels.
Translation by Carles Andreu Saburit. Original title: By the Sea (2001). Abdulrazak Gurnah received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Belongs to the Les ales esteses collection.
For readers interested in colonialism, exile and the search for identity.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
