By the Sea
- author
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrator
- Denver Isaac and Connie Mgadzah
- Length
- 11 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Catalogue #
- 19288
- Categories
- Contemporary Fiction
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection.
Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.