1994, ISBN: f6966669aa5d433d05536a9e09b3e1c6

First edition

[SC: 11.47], [PU: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994], BOOKS LITERATURE MODERN WORLD SIGNED COPIES PRESENTATION & INSCRIBED NOISBN, First edition, first impression, inscribed on the title page… More...

[SC: 11.47], [PU: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994], BOOKS LITERATURE MODERN WORLD SIGNED COPIES PRESENTATION & INSCRIBED NOISBN, First edition, first impression, inscribed on the title page, in the year of publication, by the Nobel Prize-winning author, "To Joel, with best wishes Abdulrazak 22.4.94". This was Gurnah's breakthrough novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread prizes, and which explores the effects of colonialism in early 20th-century East Africa through the eyes of a child protagonist. The Independent reviewed the book as "many-layered, violent, beautiful and strange. It incorporates its disparate elements - myth, folktale, Biblical and Koranic tradition, a strong whiff of Conrad - without a dilution of its essence. Not the least of its many achievements is the bleak economy and finely judged distance with which it evokes the evils of colonialism". Gurnah's sustained success was internationally recognized in 2021 upon his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". Anita Mason, review in The Independent, 13 March 1994. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped, contents fresh; bright jacket with minor edge creasing, not price-clipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket.<

1994, ISBN: f6966669aa5d433d05536a9e09b3e1c6

Hardcover

[PU: The New Press 1994], MODERN FIRST EDITIONS LITERATURE FICTION NOVELS AFRICA AFRICAN ABDULRAZAK GURNAH, Jacket, FIRST EDITION, TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all… More...

[PU: The New Press 1994], MODERN FIRST EDITIONS LITERATURE FICTION NOVELS AFRICA AFRICAN ABDULRAZAK GURNAH, Jacket, FIRST EDITION, TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs<

1994, ISBN: f6966669aa5d433d05536a9e09b3e1c6

The New Press 1994. FIRST EDITION, TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading c… More...

The New Press 1994. FIRST EDITION, TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs, The New Press 1994, 0<

1994, ISBN: f6966669aa5d433d05536a9e09b3e1c6

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994. First edition of the work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small ownership name to the fro… More...

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994. First edition of the work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small ownership name to the front free endpaper., Hamish Hamilton, 1994, 0<