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100			_aGurnah, Abdulrazak _98782
245			_aBy the Sea
260			_bBloomsbury Publishing -- _aIreland -- _c2001
300			_a245p.
520			_aOn a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him is a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house, and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a distinguished young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their mutual past begin to unravel, revealing an infinitely more fascinating story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.
650			_aLiterature _98773
650			_aAmerican fiction _98783
942			_cBK