Monday, September 5, 2022

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Of course for the Nobel prize winner :)

Story told by a broken man (Saleh Omar) who moves from Zanjibar to Gatwick in the old age. With no purpose left in life apart from just live the life. But the arrival in a different country brought back the memories of a life time not only for Saleh but also the forgotten son of his namesake.

Both of them cleanse themselves from the burden of the life when they found a lost relation in each other.

We rarely get to know the consequences of our actions, specially the ones driven by stupidity but when it does it brings back the futility of all the things which were given undue importance. But those mistakes are the important part of our human side which is more prone to make mistakes based on the reasons which even we don't understand. But the salvation lies in accepting them and moving on to be a different person, hopefully better.

Peace

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