Memories of Departure and other Stories in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Writings

Abstract

Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian born in Zanzibar in 1948 is a renowned and reputed writer. The Nobel laureate for literature in 2021 is a prolific writer who holds ten novels published till date, to his credit: Memory of Departure (1987), Pilgrim’s Way (1988), Dottie (1990), Paradise (1994), Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), Desertion (2005), The Last Gift (2011), Gravel Heart (2017) and Afterlives (2020). As an academic, Gurnah is a professor of English and Postcolonial literature at Kent University. He is metaphorically referred to as a sea turtle because sea turtles are renowned for their ability to return to the same nesting grounds where they were born, even after migrating thousands of miles