Author's name: Abdul Razzaq Gurnah

In his novel, “Abandonment,” Abdulrazak Gurnah takes the navel as a nucleus through which he reveals the conflicts between parental duty, personal choice, and submission to the herd culture. He then moves on to broader themes of freedom and control as colonialism gives way to independence and then to the stagnation of African socialism. It deals with lost dreams that crumble on the rocks of European racism, the suffering of immigrants, their alienation, and the removal of the concept of homeland from their being. An amazing novel, a delicate and sensitive exploration of how memory consoles us and necessarily frustrates us. Write the text with the emoji.