DESERTION
Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali's sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated. In this crumbling town on the edge of civilised life, with the empire on the brink of a new century, a passionate love affair begins that brings two cultures together and which will reverberate through three generations and across continents.
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH
Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL born 20 December 1948 is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. 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. Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". He is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.
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GURNAH ABDULRAZAK
Abdulrazak Gurnah Zanzíbar, 1948 es un escritor de origen tanzano afincado en Inglaterra desde hace más de medio siglo. Doctorado en 1982 por la Universidad de Kent, ejerció la docencia en las universidades de Bayero Kano, Nigeria y Kent, donde impartió literatura inglesa y poscolonial hasta su jubilación en 2017. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature desde 2006 y autor de numerosos cuentos, ensayos y una decena de novelas, entre las que destacan Paraíso, nominada para los premios Booker y Whitbread, A orillas del mar, La vida, después y El desertor, todas ellas publicadas por Salamandra. Considerado uno de los escritores poscoloniales más relevantes, en 2021 fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura por su "conmovedora descripción de los efectos del colonialismo y la historia de los refugiados en el abismo entre culturas y continentes ".
