# By the Sea

by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001

Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker. When he meets Latif, a voluntary refugee, in a small English seaside town, there begins an unravelling of a story begun long ago.

ISBN: 9780747557852

## See also

- [Abdulrazak Gurnah](https://africantales.net/authors/abdulrazak-gurnah)
- [More from Tanzania](https://africantales.net/countries/TZA)
- [Literary Fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)
- [The 2000s](https://africantales.net/decades/2000s)

Source: https://africantales.net/books/by-the-sea