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Paradise
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough”...
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Paradise
- Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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Paradise
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his ‘uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.
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A top-class production!
- By Dennis Sommers on 27-08-22
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Paradise
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Theft
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation. But for Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents, it seems as if all doors are closed. Brought into a lowly position in a great house in Dar es Salaam, Badar finds the first true home of his life – and the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house. Even when a shattering false accusation sees Badar sent away, Karim and Fauzia refuse to turn away from their friend.
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A beautiful journey through time and Tanzania
- By El on 09-03-26
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Theft
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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By the Sea
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Connie Mgadzah, Denver Isaac
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled.
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One voice better than the other
- By EEL on 02-01-23
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By the Sea
- Narrated by: Connie Mgadzah, Denver Isaac
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 31-08-22
- Language: English
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Afterlives
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance147
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Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, given away. Hamza was not stolen but was sold; he has come of age in the army, at the right hand of an officer whose control has ensured his protection but marked him for life. Hamza does not have words for how the war ended for him. Returning to the town of his childhood, all he wants is work, however humble and security - and the beautiful Afiya.
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Lynch a great reader of this book
- By EEL on 06-11-21
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Afterlives
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Gravel Heart
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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For seven-year-old Salim, the pillars upholding his small universe—his indifferent father, his adored uncle, his treasured books, the daily routines of government school and Koran lessons—seem unshakeable. But it is the 1970s, and the winds of change are blowing through Zanzibar: Salim’s father is gone, and the island convulses with violence and corruption the wake of a revolution. It will only be years later, making his way through an alien and hostile London, that Salim will begin to understand the shame and exploitation festering at the heart of his family’s history.
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rubbish
- By Donna PAILOR on 25-02-26
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Gravel Heart
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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Desertion
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce—writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali's sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated.
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Not for me
- By Bella A on 27-05-25
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Desertion
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Admiring Silence
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined—the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return, he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, the barriers come down in Zanzibar and he is able and compelled to go back.
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Admiring Silence
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Memory of Departure
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Faaiz Mbelizi
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar’s family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother’s rightful share of the family inheritance.
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Memory of Departure
- Narrated by: Faaiz Mbelizi
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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The Last Gift
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Ali Zayn
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Abbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened 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.
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Family and roots
- By EllaFran on 18-05-23
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The Last Gift
- Narrated by: Ali Zayn
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 22-09-22
- Language: English
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Pilgrims Way
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don’t really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother, who would then approach you. Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination.
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Credible account of everyday racism
- By Vicki on 19-08-25
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Pilgrims Way
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Cuore di ghiaia
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Alberto Cristofori - traduttore
- Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Salim è un bambino intelligente, amante dei libri, e ha sempre saputo di essere un figlio indesiderato per suo padre Masud. Così è cresciuto affascinato dallo zio Amir, un uomo brillante ed estroverso, che vive con loro in una casa piena di segreti che alimentano gli incubi notturni del ragazzo. Sono gli anni ’70 e Zanzibar sta cambiando volto: l’arrivo dei turisti sulle spiagge bianche dell’isola offusca rapidamente la memoria dell’indipendenza dal Regno Unito e della rivoluzione che ha dato un nuovo assetto al paese.
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Cuore di ghiaia
- Narrated by: Riccardo Bocci
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-10-23
- Language: Italian
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By the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Connie Mgadzah, Denver Isaac
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a...
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By the Sea
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Connie Mgadzah, Denver Isaac
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-09-23
- Language: English
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Dottie
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history—or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain. At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs.
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Disappointing
- By Gina on 24-06-25
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Dottie
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Desertion
- A Novel
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing at the peak of his powers, Abdulrazak Gurnah gives us in Desertion a spellbinding novel of forbidden love and cultural upheaval, with consequences powerfully reverberating through three generations and across continents—from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African...
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Desertion
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-09-23
- Language: English
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Map Reading
- The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Generous, funny and wise, this collection is the perfect introduction to the storyteller described as ‘one of Africa’s most important living writers’; whose work, now spanning four decades, continues to spin wonder and magic while offering penetrating insight into exile, migration and homecoming.
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Map Reading
- The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 24-11-22
- Language: English
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Paraíso [Paradise]
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Sofía Noguera Mendía - translator
- Narrated by: Rafael King
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce años, le dicen que vivirá con su tío Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empeñado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajará por África central y las riberas del Congo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial.
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Paraíso [Paradise]
- Narrated by: Rafael King
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: Spanish
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Un largo camino [Theft]
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Rita da Costa García - translator
- Narrated by: Rafael King
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Zanzíbar, años noventa. Karim, Fauzia y Badar, tres muchachos que han crecido en entornos muy distintos, sueñan con las enormes posibilidades de su naciente país. Karim regresa a su tranquila ciudad natal con nuevos bríos y ambiciones tras sus estudios universitarios. Fauzia, apasionada por la escuela y con el sueño de ser maestra, ve en él una oportunidad para escapar de una educación asfixiante. Para Badar, en cambio, un sirviente sin estudios que nunca conoció a sus padres, parece que todas las puertas están cerradas.
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Un largo camino [Theft]
- Narrated by: Rafael King
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-10-25
- Language: Spanish
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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
- A Novel
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown...
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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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El desertor [Desertion]
- By: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Rita da Costa García - translator
- Narrated by: Rafael King
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Una mañana de 1899, Martin Pearce, un escritor, viajero y orientalista inglés, exhausto después de escapar de una banda de ladrones, llega a una pequeña ciudad costera de África Oriental. Allí, en esa población en ruinas al borde de la vida civilizada, se enamora de Rehana, y comienza una apasionada historia de amor que unirá dos culturas y que reverberará a lo largo de tres generaciones y a través de los continentes, desde el África colonial hasta el Londres de los años sesenta.
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El desertor [Desertion]
- Narrated by: Rafael King
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: Spanish
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