Paradise

Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker and Whitbread Prizes, this book is set in the decade before World War I, in the garden of a merchant's house on the coast of East Africa. Yusuf is 12 when he is sold into the service of the rich, perfumed merchant whom he has always known as "uncle" Aziz. 

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah

Publisher: Penguin

Released Date: 1995

ISBN: 9780140233117