Description from Goodreads
Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts, Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.My Thoughts on the Book
Paradise is one of those books that will probably make you a little bit sad while reading it, just to be warned. It's an amazingly written book though, and some of the descriptions makes the scenes come alive with the scents, sounds, and what-not. I also quite enjoyed reading about Yosuf and his relationship with Khalil, and the dynamics between them were well-written.
Based on this book alone, I totally get why Abdulrazak Gurnah recieved a Nobel Prize in literature.
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