Pilgrims Way
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Pilgrims Way
Narrated by:
Ashley Zhangazha
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Narrated by:
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Ashley Zhangazha
About this listen
By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
‘Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision’ Evening Standard
‘Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness’ Daily Telegraph
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Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.
Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.©1988 Abdulrazak Gurnah (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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"Exile has given Gurnah a perspective on the 'balance between things' that is astonishing, superb." (Observer)
"Gurnah is a master storyteller." (Aminatta Forna, Financial Times)
I have listened to recordings of six of Gurnha's other novels and none of them has this censorship (or, at least, they didn't at the time I read them, I haven't gone back and checked if they have been 'updated').
If recordings of rap songs using the N word can be made and sold, I don't understand why this novel, which has the word in the printed version, cannot be recorded faithfully.
Can the press please either stop doing this or mark the recordings with a warning that the recording is censored. This is NOT unabridged, because it censors the author's words.
Abridged by censorship in the audio version
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