Chitra Chaudhary

“In no time at all after I moved, I was overcome by the enormity of my abandonment, like someone weeping in a crowd.

I was astonished by the sudden surge of loneliness and terror I felt when I realized how stranded I was in this hostile place, that I did not know how to speak to people and win them over to me,that the bank, the canteen, the supermarket, the dark streets seemed so intimidating, and that I could not return from where I came – that, as I then thought, I had lost everything. Then Emma came and filled my life. I can’t describe that.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence

“We were strolling along the waterfront, his favourite walk, going nowhere in particular, the postcolonial condition.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence

“I'm not perfect. I'm unfulfilled.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence

“... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives