Gravel heart (Record no. 9992)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781408881309
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914 GUR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gurnah, Abdulrazak.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Gravel heart
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 261p. ; 25 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by bloody revolution. When his father moves out, retreating into disheveled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not discuss the change, nor does she explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal, and Abdulrazak Gurnah's most astonishing achievement.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Tanzanians--England--London--Fiction.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   823.914 GUR UR008578 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book