By the sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah First published 2001

About this book

Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker. When he meets Latif, a voluntary refugee, in a small English seaside town, there begins an unravelling of a story begun long ago.

Subjects

  • africa, fiction
  • england, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, political
  • refugees
  • roman
  • tanzanians
  • zanzibaris