Poverty in Paradise
Views of paradise come in all shades in Gurnah’s novel, many of them exploitative.
This article contains major spoilers for the 1994 novel.
Over the last few years, such well-known novelists as Kazuo Ishiguro and poets such as Louise Glück have taken home the Nobel Prize in Literature. So, when the academy announced Abdulrazak Gurnah, a little known…
