- Audiobook
- 2022
- 11 hrs 15 mins
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Title
Dottie
Description
Bloomsbury presents Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah, read by Isabel Adomakoh Young.
By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past
'Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth' The Times
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Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history – or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain.
At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.
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Product details
Publisher:
Author:
Title:
Dottie
read by:
Language:
EN
ISBN Audio:
9781526656773
Publication date:
July 20, 2022
Keywords:
Nobel Prize literatureBlack African winnerBritish EmpireLouise Gluck Olga TogarczukKazuo Ishiguro Bob DylanSvetlana Alexeivichmemory of departurePilgrims WayParadise Admiring SilenceBy the Sea DesertionLast Gift Gravel HeartEsi Edugyan WashingtonMichael Ondaatje WarlightRichard FlanaganNarrow Road to the Deep NorthJhumpa LahiriHalf of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi AdichieTaiye SelasiHomegoingYaa GyasiColson Whitehead Underground Railroadbooks about East Africawriters
Duration
11 hrs 15 mins
Product type
AUDIO
Explicit:
No
Audio drama:
No
Unabridged:
Yes
About the author:
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.