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Paradise
- Title
- Paradise / Abdulrazak Gurnah.
- Author
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 95-24 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 246 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
- Subject
- Enslaved children > Africa, East > 19th century > Fiction
- Father and child > Africa, East > 19th century > Fiction
- Slave trade > Africa, East > 19th century > Fiction
- Colonies > Africa > 19th century > Fiction
- Africa, East > Social conditions > 19th century > Fiction
- Tanzania > History > 19th century > Fiction
- Africa > Colonization > History > 19th century > Fiction
- Call Number
- Sc D 95-24
- ISBN
- 156584162X
- 9781565841628
- OCLC
- 29518223
- Author
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
- Title
- Paradise / Abdulrazak Gurnah.
- Imprint
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1994.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 95-24