num_pages: 247
description: 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.
language: English
title: Paradise
titlecomplete: Paradise
genres: Fiction, African Literature, Literature, Nobel Prize, Novels, Tanzania, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 8529
places: Africa, Tanzania, East Africa
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Whitbread Award
publisher: Penguin