Description
When a sudden diabetic crisis robs Abbas—an East African immigrant in England—of his ability to speak, he is forced into a reckoning he has avoided for years. As he turns to storytelling to keep his children close, the novel unfolds in retrospect, tracing how a “dread of ruin” and the pressures of displacement shaped his choices and the truths he withheld. Alongside Abbas’s guarded past, Hanna and Jamal confront their own identities, navigating the weight of inherited silences and the limits of partial knowledge. With Abdulrazak Gurnah’s signature compassion and lyrical precision, this is a novel about colonial afterlives, memory, illness, and the fragile line between self-invention and accountability—where the last gift may be nothing less than honesty.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published Jan 1, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 9781408815182
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah.