Books - Reviews: Desertion, by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bloomsbury, Pounds 17.99. ; Reviewed by Gemma Price

Birmingham Post › May 21, 2005

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Desertion follows two different narratives in Gurnah's native Africa, set against a backdrop of a turbulent time in Mombassa's independence from being a British Colony in 1899, and a family drama in Zanzibar in the 1950s.

The first narrative focuses around the forbidden love story of a spinster Muslim woman and a European stranger who happens upon her small town after her brother takes him in.

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Books - Reviews: Desertion, by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bloomsbury, Pounds 17.99. ; Reviewed by Gemma Price

The second on a family - where the situation rem...

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