Heart of Gravel

★2021 Nobel Prize winner Gurner pays tribute to Shakespeare's works ★The hometown you can't go back to, the city you can't leave behind, where is your home? ★Ordinary people helpless in turbulent times, they have nothing but their repeatedly broken hearts [About the author] Abdulrazaq Gulna, a Tanzanian-British writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 for "his uncompromising and compassionate insights into the impact of colonialism and the fate of refugees living in the divide between different cultures and continents." Gurna was born in Zanzibar Island on the coast of East Africa in 1948. He moved to the UK in the 1960s to study. He served as a judge for the Caine African Literature Prize and the Booker Prize. In 2006, he was elected to the Royal Society of Literature. Gurna's works revolve around the theme of refugees, mainly describing the living conditions of colonial people, focusing on identity, ethnic conflicts and historical writing. The living conditions in the post-colonial era shown are considered to have important social practical significance. Representative works include "Paradise", "Afterlife", "By the Sea", etc. The protagonist Selim lives with his parents and uncle Amir in a house full of secrets. One day, Selim's father moved out of the house, but his mother kept silent about it, and then started a new family with a strange man. Selim cannot understand his father's choice and is ashamed of his silence. After graduating from high school, Selim was taken to London by his uncle, who became a senior diplomat. However, the noise and coldness of the city left him at a loss and could only survive in endless loneliness. After his mother's death, Selim returns to his hometown to try to unearth the secrets that are tearing his family apart. Eventually he had to face the pain of those closest to him, and the truth nearly destroyed him.