The Last Gift

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reviewed by Georgia Black
in December 2022

Abbas collapses at the age of 63 (the same age as the author at the time of writing) and, bedbound in England, tells his wife and children about his past. A novel of identity and immigration, memory and family secrets, from the UK based-Zanzibari winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for Literature – the first black writer in 35 years to have won the world’s top writing award.

Published: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408821855

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