Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Title: Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak ISBN: 9781526653451 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published: 2022 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1396959 Publisher Description: **By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** A corrosively funny and relentless (The New York Times) tale of cultural identity and displacement, Admiring Silence is the story of a man's dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England. The unnamed narrator of this dazzling novel escapes from Zanzibar to England knowing that he will probably never return. In his new country, things are not quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, and he quickly forgets how it feels to belong. But when he meets a beautiful, rebellious woman named Emma, and when Emma, turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer