{"product_id":"book-grcr","title":"Paradise","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “breakthrough” work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy’s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf’s eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e calls a “vibrant” and “powerful” work that “evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover.”","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49323365269808,"sku":"BDgrcr","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/361803-grcr-Square.jpg?v=1733509253","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-grcr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}