by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Author)
Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker and Whitbread Prizes, this book is set in the decade before World War I, in the garden of a merchant's house on the coast of East Africa. Yusuf is 12 when he is sold into the service of the rich, perfumed merchant whom he has always known as "uncle" Aziz.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 02 Mar 1995
ISBN 10: 0140233113
ISBN 13: 9780140233117
Prizes: Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1994.