Category: Africa

In this fourth novel by Nobel Prize recipient Abdulrazak Gurnah, the author tells a coming of age story of Yusuf. It is in the first decade of the twentieth century in Zanzibar, east Africa and Yusuf is given up by his parents to repay a debt owed to an Arab merchant named Aziz . Simultaneously, Gurnah offers the equivalent of a crystal clear black and white photograph I associate with the era.