Paradise. Gurna A.

The action of the novel unfolds in colonial Africa at a time when the English invaders are crowding out the natives from their land, and the Germans plan to build the railway through the entire continent.

Yusuf’s father sells his son into slavery to pay debts. First, Yusuf enters the shop of the newly -made owner, and then goes on a trip around the country with a trade caravan.

The collapse of the former world, interdepa -tribal wars, superstitions, issues of slavery and internal freedom through the eyes of the boy, coupled with the problems of growing up and forbidden love A dense canvas is illuminated to the reader, into which Africa wraps his beauty and cruelty.

Abdulrazak Gurn - Nobel Laureate in the literature of 2021, an English writer of Tanzani origin. The novel "Paradise" is published in Russian for the first time.