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.
The Last Gift
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reviewed by Georgia Black
in December 2022
Published: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408821855