Abdulrazak Gurnah

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1996
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Admiring Silence

    By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

    'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times

    'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly...

  • By the Sea

    A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from itOn a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport ...

  • Paradise

    From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee ...

  • Desertion

    A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independenceEarly one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Ma...

  • A Grain of Wheat

    Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, t...

  • The Last Gift

    One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty-three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the da...

  • Dottie

    By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

    A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past

    'Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in t...

  • Memory of Departure

    Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of Independence b...

  • Pilgrims Way

    By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature

    'Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision' Evening Standard

    'Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... ...



  • Gravel Heart

    A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal 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. I...

  • Afterlives

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”A NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS“Superb. . . . A celebrat...

  • Theft

    In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Abdulrazak Gurnah has published 12 books.

The next book by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Theft, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence, was published in October 1996.

No. Abdulrazak Gurnah does not write books in series.
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