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By the sea

By the sea

Abdulrazak Gurnah

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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.

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OL Work ID
OL3958400W

Subjects

TanzaniansRefugeesFictionEngland, fictionFiction, politicalAfrica, fictionZanzibarisRoman

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