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Title Paradise / Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Author Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-
Publication Info. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©1994.
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 North Orange  FIC GUR    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC GUR    Check Shelves
Description 246 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
Subject Child slaves -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Father and child -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Colonies -- Africa -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Tanzania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Colonies -- Fiction.
Tanzania -- Fiction.
1800-1899
Boys Fiction
Colonies Fiction
Tanzania Fiction
Genre Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
ISBN 156584162X (hardcover)
9781565841628 (hardcover)
1565841638 (paperback)
9781565841635 (paperback) : $22.95