By The Sea Av Abdulrazak Gurnah

<p><u><b>By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature</b></u><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE<br><br>''One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment'' </b><i>The Times</i><br><br><b>‘Gurnah is a master storyteller'' </b><i>Financial Times</i><br><br>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 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. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. <br><br>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 and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.</p>