Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: "Hassan Omar is a gifted young man, with a potentially bright future but a past marred by poverty. In the wake of a national uprising, and with a new government in place, though, he is denied a scholarship to a university abroad and deprived of the opportunity to study further. Instead, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURSatyal, Rakesh
Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: "Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURMandino, Og
Summary: "Tras sufrir la irreparable p rdida de su esposa e hijo en un accidente automovilístico, John Harding, un hombre que se consideraba exitoso hasta ese momento, cae en una profunda depresión. Gracias a un amigo comenzará a dirigir un equipo de beisbol infantil y conocerá a Timothy Noble, un niño de once años, poseedor de una voluntad inquebrantable a pesar de su falta de habilidad. A través de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diana 2022