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I never heard of Gurnahh before he won the Nobel prize in literature in 2021, this is my first novel by Gurnah. A very detailed and realistic story of Yousef (a young boy whose father sold him to a wealthy merchant because he can no longer pay his debts). The impressive thing about this novel (comparing it to a slew of novels set in Africa by writers who grew up there, or who still reside there) are the details the author supplies about the myths, habits, customs, and mindsets of the various cha
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Oct 09, 2021
Vanessa van den Boogaard
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