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Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise

World Book Club by BBC

May 3, 202549:26Society & Culture

Harriett Gilbert talks with Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah about his hauntingly beautiful novel Paradise. It tells the story of Yusuf, a 12 year-old boy living in East Africa at the beginning of the 20th Century. Sold...

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Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise is an episode from World Book Club by BBC. Harriett Gilbert talks with Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah about his hauntingly beautiful novel Paradise. It tells the story of Yusuf, a 12 year-old boy living in East...

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Published May 3, 2025, 49:26 long, audio available.

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