The Last Gift: By the Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Contributor(s): Gurnah, Abdulrazak (Author) |
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ISBN: 1620403285 ISBN-13: 9781620403280 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Sagas |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2010467703 |
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.37" W x 8.49" (0.92 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty-three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and there was no one to blame for it but himself. Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark blue eyes and her own complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother, Maryam, who has never thought to find herself-until now. |