By the Sea

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On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession a mahogany box containing incense He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise silence his only protection Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh s past, lives quietly alone in his London flat When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled It is a story of love, betrayal, of seduction and of possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times. Best Download [ By the Sea ] author [ Abdulrazak Gurnah ] – kino-fada.fr There were parts of this book that were like listening to a maestro story teller, then there were parts of great mundane detail Overall, a book that needs every word read.Saleh Omar is a 65 year old from Zanzibar He arrives in England and seeks asylum The book is narrated by him and Latif Mahmud, a younger man who s father played an integral role in Omar s life.Early in the book Omar tells of his hatred Imperialism, he is bitter about the changes it made to his country and in the mess it left There were parts of this book that were like listening to a maestro story teller, then there were parts of great mundane detail Overall, a book that needs every word read.Saleh Omar is a 65 year old from Zanzibar He arrives in England and seeks asylum The boo...Told from several different perspectives, By the Sea offers contradictory and inconsistent alternatives of the truth the veracity of which cannot intentionally be determined You are being both misled but also left at the mercy of the vagaries of memory The story told is a seemingly straightforward one a man forced to flee home ends up living in exile by the sea As you re moved along the fairly brief narrative, though, a host of entangled and interwoven stories are revealed It s cleve Told from several different perspectives, By the Sea offers contradictory and inconsistent alternatives of the truth the veracity of which cannot intentionally be determined You are b...3.5 star Review By the Sea by Abdulrazak GurnahAbdulrazak Gurnah attempts to narrate a poignant tale of two men, a generation apart, who reside in mid 40s Africa, named Saleh Omar and Latif Mahmud They, each in their lifetime, have faced atrocities in the hands of their beloved ones and a crumbling government They are united in England years later, where one seeks asylum while the other is a professor of Literature In their meeting, Latif Mahmud confronts Saleh Omar about his objectionable be 3.5 star Review By the Sea by Abdulrazak GurnahAbdulrazak Gurnah attempts to narrate a poignant tale of two men, a generation apart, who reside in mid 40s Africa, named Saleh Omar and Latif Mahmud They, each in their lifetime, have faced at...This was a clever and engaging story Well written beautifully poetic and evocative and full of on point psychological insights about two men who meet in England and who have pasts in Zanzibar that connect them And as mos...Another pearl, probably one of the most exquisites i found on my travel through african literature in English.Interesting book though a bit strange I found it dry and soul sucking not the book itself, but the story that the main character tells about his life, and the reality he finds himself in at the end You meet him at the airport in the UK, an old man arrived from Zanzibar and claiming refugee status which he gets and is taken to live in a small English town by the sea In the novel he flashes back to his life growing up in Zanzibar by the sea and to the events that led up to him having...Started off thinking it was a bit hard to read and a bit dependent on my mood Got better and better Really damn good, in factI enjoyed the storytelling, but from fellow readers comments I know that this is not for everyone Many aspects of this novel are very relevant today, especially the aspects of arriving in Europe as refugees, their motifs, and the treatment they receive.Lovely story, tedious writing.It s strange to read a book by someone you know in person, and with whom you have a working relationship The temptation to read one character or the other as the author s alter egos is strong This is a story of injustice, family betrayals and rivalries over what end up being petty things, but which become big in the grand scale of things I enjoyed the brilliant ways in which the storytelling is interweaved in the narrative, how one character is always telling a story to another, and how the It s strange to read a book by someone you know in person, and with whom you have a working relationship The temptation to read one ...

By the Sea
  • English
  • 27 December 2018
  • Paperback
  • 245 pages
  • 0747557853
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • By the Sea