Pilgrims Way
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Publication Date: Jun 27, 1988
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Hardcover, 332 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780224025621
Imprint: Random House Uk Ltd
Publisher: Random House Uk Ltd
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don’t really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to send my aunt to speak, discreetly, to your aunt, who would then speak to your mother, who would speak to my mother, who would speak to my father, who would speak to me and then approach your mother, who would then approach you. Demoralized 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 humor never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.