Blah Blah Book Club: June 2026 meetup
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This month, we will be reading and discussing Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, from our Open Choice category.
BLURB. Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence. (256 pages)
Happy reading!