Admiring Silence

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Original title: Admiring silence

earliest edition we have, 1996 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021

A man escapes from his native Zanzibar to England. His furtive departure makes it unlikely that he will ever return, but he and his family agree a bright future lies ahead. He meets an English woman and they build a life together. She is writing a thesis on narrative theory; he becomes a teacher in a cramped London school. His release is to weave stories, often fictional, for her and her comfortably suburban parents....

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Admiring Silence edition · 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781526653451
Admiring Silence edition · 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408883969
Admiring silence edition · 1996 · Hamish Hamilton · 216 pages
Admiring Silence hardcover · 1996 · New Press · 216 pages · 9781565843493

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