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Abbas’s life is a quiet shore until a sudden collapse at the age of sixty‑three leaves him bedbound and unable to speak. A former sailor who met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, he had kept the details of his past hidden—his voyages, struggles, and the birth of their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, faced with a sudden medical crisis, the silence he kept for so long begins to unravel, compelling him to speak about the memories he once thought he would never have to recall.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Abdulrazak Gurnah
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