Category:
Historical Fiction,
Literature,
NovelLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
1970s England Immigrant Life RacismWritten by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Read by Ashley Zhangazha
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
Demoralized by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.
Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humor never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.
Audio Release Date:
July 21 2022
9 hrs and 49 mins