Welcome to Litsy!

I've just finished this novel and realised that I never knew our protagonists name, flicking back through the pages I don't think we are ever told.

We do know he is in his forties, he teaches in the UK and has a failing heart. We also know his family in Zanzibar have no idea he lives with an English woman and has a 17 year old daughter.

This feels very much like a character study, how silence can wrap itself around unsaid words and snowball.

Over the years, I'd wishlisted several novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah, but his winning the Nobel Prize was the impetus I needed to actually download one and start reading.

(picture of the Old Town of Zanzibar City courtesy of Wikimedia)

#NobelPrize #Tanzania #Zanzibar #BlackInEurope

On the ferry to Martha's Vineyard to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. (Hubby is on deck in the rain in January like a good Navy man raised on the water.)