The last gift

Resumen del libro

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021Abbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened 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. Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world.

They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud.

Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother Maryam, who began life as a foundling and has never thought to find herself, until now.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Abdulrazak Gurnah x{0026}lt;/B (Zanzíbar, 1948) es un escritor de origen tanzano afincado en Inglaterra desde hace más de medio siglo. Doctorado en 1982 por la Universidad de Kent, ejerció la docencia en las universidades Bayero (Kano, Nigeria) y Kent, donde dio clases de literatura hasta su jubilación en 2017. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature desde el año 2006 y autor de numerosos cuentos, ensayos y una decena de novelas, entre las que destacan x{0026}lt;I Paraísox{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2021), nominada para los premios Booker y Whitbread, x{0026}lt;I A orillas del marx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2022), x{0026}lt;I La vida, después x{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2022) y x{0026}lt;I El desertor x{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2023). Considerado uno de los escritores poscoloniales más relevantes, fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2021 por su conmovedora descripción de los efectos del colonialismo y la historia de los refugiados en el abismo entre culturas y continentes .x{0026}lt;/P