Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, 12-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the universal trials of adolescence.
- ISBN10 0241001838
- ISBN13 9780241001837
- Publish Date 24 February 1994
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 9 May 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English