{"product_id":"9780747557852","title":"By The Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002**\u003cbr\u003eOn 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 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, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Gurnah+Abdulrazak\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eGurnah Abdulrazak\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gurnah Abdulrazak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380765802659,"sku":"9780747557852","price":305.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780747557852_4317b6c9-6d32-414d-bcca-b81b8a787329.jpg?v=1776494428","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780747557852","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}