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By the sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah · Booklabria

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By the sea

EnglandRoman

By the sea

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First published: 2001
Language: English
Editions: 5

Synopsis

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: England
Roman
Political
Africa
Refugees
Set in: England
London
Tanzania
Zanzibar

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