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Title:
Paradise
Author:
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- author.
Publication Date:
1995

1994
Publication Information:
New York : The New Press, [1995]

©1994
Physical Description:
246 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781565841635
Abstract:
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 Term:
Enslaved children -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Colonies -- Africa -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Father and child -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Slave trade -- Africa, East -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Africa, East -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Tanzania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Language:
English
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