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On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, of seduction and of possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.
| ISBN | 0747557853 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780747557852
(What's this?) | | Pages | 256 | | Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Weight (grammes) | 209 | | Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 08 Jul 2002 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823 | | Academic level | General |
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'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... one scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times  Be the first to write a customer review
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