by Abdulrazak Gurnah · La nave di Teseo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788834614228
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«Cuore di ghiaia» is the literary novel by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, published by La nave di Teseo in hardback (400 pages, in Italian).
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s between his father's silence and his fascination with his uncle Amir. When his father leaves home, Salim travels to London at his uncle's invitation; there he discovers family secrets and the truth about love, power and betrayal, while literature becomes his refuge.
Work originally published as «Gravel Heart» (2017); this edition belongs to the Oceani collection and is translated by Alberto Cristofori.
For readers of literary fiction interested in African narrative and stories of migration, identity and family.
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.
