Cover of By the Sea

By the Sea

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

2001 · literary fiction · adult

Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • Tanzanian coast · Tanzania
    German East Africa colonial town
    ★ primary

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