{"product_id":"paraiso-paradise","title":"Paraíso \/ Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUna historia de iniciaci\u0026amp;oacute;n que ilumina la crudeza y la belleza de la \u0026amp;Aacute;frica precolonial, por el premio Nobel de literatura 2021.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce a\u0026amp;ntilde;os, le dicen que vivir\u0026amp;aacute; con su t\u0026amp;iacute;o Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empe\u0026amp;ntilde;ado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajar\u0026amp;aacute; por \u0026amp;Aacute;frica central y las riberas del Congo en v\u0026amp;iacute;speras de la primera guerra mundial. A trav\u0026amp;eacute;s de los ojos de ese chiquillo descubriremos una naturaleza exuberante y hostil, poblada de tribus despiadadas e invasores desalmados, en la que una vida humana vale tanto como unas cuantas gotas de agua. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Gurnah\u0026amp;rsquo;s novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world.\" \u0026amp;mdash;Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradise was characterized by the Nobel Prize committee as Abdulrazak Gurnah\u0026amp;rsquo;s \u0026amp;ldquo;breakthrough\u0026amp;rdquo; work. It is at once the chronicle of an African boy\u0026amp;rsquo;s coming-of-age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into complexities of pre-colonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf\u0026amp;rsquo;s eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence. The result is what Publishers Weekly calls a \u0026amp;ldquo;vibrant\u0026amp;rdquo; and \u0026amp;ldquo;powerful\u0026amp;rdquo; work that \u0026amp;ldquo;evokes the Edenic natural beauty of a continent on the verge of full-scale imperialist takeover.\u0026amp;rdquo;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49737966584035,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9788418968099","price":157.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/b000fa4c3863-9788418968099.jpg?v=1789534473","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/paraiso-paradise","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}