The last gift : a novel / Abdulrazak Gurnah.
By: Gurnah, Abdulrazak [author.].
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, ©2014Edition: First U.S. ed.Description: 279 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781639730001.Subject(s): Families, Black -- England -- Fiction | Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients | Families, Black | Family secrets | EnglandGenre/Form: Fiction. | Print books.Summary: "Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | PR9399.9.G87 L37 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000017884 |
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"Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--