Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel “Theft” - 3 Quarks Daily

Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel “Theft” - 3 Quarks Daily

Max Callimanopulos in the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Leaving. I’ve had years to think about that, leaving and arriving,” Latif, a Zanzibari emigre, tells us in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 2001 novel By the Sea. The book describes the complicated friendship between two Zanzibari men living in the United Kingdom, but in these lines, Gurnah might as well be writing about himself. In 1968, Gurnah left his home—the small tropical island of Zanzibar, 20-od…