[5][6][7] Daud experiences racist abuse from skinheads and others and begins to feel fearful and dejected as a result.

[10] Daud's other friends include Lloyd, a white man with racist tendencies, and Karta, a pan-African Black nationalist.

[10] Critic Jopi Nyman argues that Pilgrims Way, like Gurnah's novels By the Sea (2001) and Desertion (2005), evinces "an interest in the structures of feeling generated by migration and exile".

[11] Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira reads Pilgrims Way as a pastoral in which Daud is "transformed" through "moments of harmony with nature".

[13] In Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Debbie Jacob writes: "Pilgrim’s Way demonstrates Gurnah’s remarkable restraint in presenting his characters’ stories.