{"product_id":"admiring-silence-by-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2021-9781526653451","title":"Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"corrosively funny and relentless\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) tale of cultural identity and displacement, \u003ci\u003eAdmiring Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man's dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when he meets a beautiful, rebellious woman named Emma, and when Emma, turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child, the narrator chooses to hide his past from his new family and his present circumstance from his family back in Zanzibar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdulrazak Gurnah \u003c\/b\u003eis the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: \u003ci\u003eMemory of Departure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePilgrims Way\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDottie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), \u003ci\u003eAdmiring Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBy the Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Award), \u003ci\u003eDesertion \u003c\/i\u003e(shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) \u003ci\u003eThe Last Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGravel Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfterlives\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50679056302354,"sku":"9781526653451","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8d1aabb-51f8-4307-905c-99a514a96796.jpg?v=1733900957","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/admiring-silence-by-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2021-9781526653451","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}