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Son Hediye, etnik kimlik, köken ve aile temalari etrafinda dokunmus bir kültürel sentezin romani.Ingilterede yasayan bir Afrikali göcmen olan Abbas, yakalandigi hastaligin ardindan gecmisini sorgulamaya baslar. Abbasi bir hikaye anlaticisina dönüstüren hastalik süreci, yillardir esi Meryem ve cocuklarindan sakladigi büyük sirrini da ortaya cikartir. Abbasin sinirlari asindiran hikayesi etnik kimlik ve köken, gercek ve kurmaca gibi ayrimlarin k...

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.Abbas has never told any...

Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections...

A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise.Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for indepen...

Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections...

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...

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Abbas has never told anyone about his past - before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to. Jamal and Han...

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Terkedis, modern dünya edebiyatinda sömürgecilik sonrasi dönemde yazilmis en parlak romanlardan biri.Terkedis, kolonyalizmin bireysel ve siyasal düzlemdeki sonuclarini üc neslin birbirine örülmüs hikayeleri üzerinden anlatan bir insanlik epigi. Gurnah, Terkediste uygarligin esiginde ufalanan bir ülkeyi, ülkeden göcenlerin yakasini birakmayan sucluluk duygusunu, yurtsuzlugu, kalanlarin üzerine cöken karanligi, din ve gelenegin sasmaz bir sürekl...

A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for works of fiction, Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism. Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communi...

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FICTION / General

Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, this novel is about the connection between two men that unravels as they meet in an English seaside resort. Aimed at the Kazuo Ishiguro, JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje market. "Astonishing and superb" "The Observer".