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020			_a9781526656117 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a82-311.6 _bGUR
100			_aGurnah, Abdulrazak
245			_aDesertion
260			_bBloomsbury Publishing _c2005 _aLondon
300			_a262p.
520			_aEarly one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali's sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future when another clandestine affair bursts into flame with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences. In this devastating and ingeniously spun tale, Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatises the personal and political legacies of colonialism
650			_aColonialism _zAfrica
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
999			_c60688 _d60688