Admiring Silence

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrators voice Financial TimesI dont think Ive ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home Independent on Sunday_____________________He thinks as he escapes from Zanzibar that he will probably never return and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that.Things do not happen quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma beautiful rebellious Emma who turns away from her white middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there in a story potent with truth will change the entire vision of his life.