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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Gurnah, Abdulrazak (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Pilgrims way [Texte électronique] / Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (240 pages)
Note(s) : An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to
terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England Dear
Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't
really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt
to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would
speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach
your mother, who would then approach you. Demoralised 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 humour never deserts him as he
struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage
to England
Genre ou forme : Roman africain de langue anglaise
Indice(s) Dewey :
823.914 (23e éd.) = Roman de langue anglaise - 1945-1999 [oeuvre]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781408885697. - ISBN 1408885697
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468870481
Notice n° :
FRBNF46887048
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
