Anywhere: Gravel heart (Keywords)

Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the m...

Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, 'Gravel Heart' is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'Paradise Salim' has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his...