Gurnah's novel The Last Gift takes the memories of African immigrants as the story thread to reveal the inter-genera-tional memory breakdown and identity construction crisis between the two generations of immigrants.The parents'deliberate oblivion and silence lead to their children's memory crisis andidentity absence.Both generations of immigrants fall into identity construction cri-sis in the silent memory,unable to trace back to the past to regain their original identity,and unable to settle for the present to build a new ethical identity,so they struggle painfully between return and assimil...
