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Paradise
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Paradise is at once the story of an African boy’s coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers – a voice that prompted Peter Tinniswood to write in the London Times, reviewing Gurnah’s previous novel, “Mr. Gurnah is a very fine writer. I am certain he will become a great one.”
Paradise is Abdulrazak Gurnah’s great novel. At twelve, Yusuf, the protagonist of this twentieth-century odyssey, is sold by his father in repayment of a debt. From the simple life of rural Africa, Yusuf is thrown into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa – a fascinating world in which Muslim black Africans, Christian missionaries, and Indians from the subcontinent coexist in a fragile, subtle social hierarchy. Through the eyes of Yusuf, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. Then, just as Yusuf begins to comprehend the choices required of him, he and everyone around him must adjust to the new reality of European colonialism. The result is a page-turning saga that covers the same territory as the novels of Isak Dinesen and William Boyd, but does so from a perspective never before available on that seldom-chronicled part of the world.
Paradise
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Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise.
Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging.
‘When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose’ Hilary Mantel, Spectator
‘Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception’ Caryl Phillips, Guardian
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Parsi Food and Customs
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A Treasure-House Of Recipes And Customs That Define The Parsi Way Of Life Celebrations, Rituals And Food Inevitably Go Together. And So It Is With The Parsis. From Navroz, The Dawn Of The Parsi New Year, To Navjote, The Initiation Ceremony Of A Young Child, Lagan Or Marriage, Jashans And Ghambhars, There Is A Variety Of Food To Suit Every Occasion. In This Unique Book, Bhicoo J. Manekshaw Takes The Reader On A Journey Far Beyond The Traditional Stereotypical Dhan Sakh Recipe. For Those Who Love Fish, There Is A Choice Of Patrani Machchi (Fish In Banana Leaves), Masala Ni Machchi Or The Famed Tarapori Patio Made With Sookha Boomla (Bombay Duck), Amongst Many Others. The Parsi Weakness For Eggs, On The Other Hand, Has Created A Range Of Mouth-Watering Dishes From The Kera Per Eeda (Eggs Cooked On Bananas) To The Humble Scrambled Egg. There Are Also Teatime Snacks, Sweets, And Desserts And A Chapter On Kitchen Medicine Straight From Grandmother&Rsquo;S Recipe Book. Interlaced With The Recipes Is The Author&Rsquo;S Piquant Description Of The Customs, Rituals And Ceremonies That Form The Parsi Way Of Life. &Nbsp;