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| Author | Abdulrazak Gurnah |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | UK |
| Pages | 160 |
| Followed by | Pilgrims Way |
Memory of Departure is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 1987 by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom.[1] It is Gurnah's first novel. It follows a Muslim man in an unnamed African country who seeks to be educated abroad.[2]
In a review for The New York Times, Richard E. Nicholls praised the novel as "fierce" and "vivid".[2] Kirkus referred to the novel as "artfully spare" and indicated an expectation that "more good things" were to be written by Gurnah.[3] In a 2022 article about Gurnah and his work, published by The New Yorker, Julian Lucas wrote that the novel "established a pattern that Gurnah continued to refine" through his subsequent work of "a ceaseless shuttling between the claustrophobia of home and the loneliness of exile".[4]
- ^ Bromley, Roger (1988). "A Mind of Winter". Third World Quarterly. 10 (1): 326–330. ISSN 0143-6597. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ a b Nicholls, Richard E. (17 July 1988). "IN SHORT; FICTION". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. 15 February 1988. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ Lucas, Julian (17 October 2022). "A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War's African Front". The New Yorker. Retrieved 30 October 2022.