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The last gift : a novel

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First U.S. edView all editions and formats
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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."--
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Genre/Form: Novels
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Abdulrazak Gurnah
ISBN: 9781620403280 1620403285
OCLC Number: 849248616
Description: 279 pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility: Abdulrazak Gurnah.

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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."--

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