Guided by the post-colonial theory, this study focused on Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian novelist’s Admiring Silence (1996). It examined the characters’ cultural polarity and convergences occasioned by transcultural encounters. Being a purely library-based study, it purposively sampled the novel. It was revealed that Gurnah’s Admiring Silence presents cultural encounters among the transcultural characters whose interactions are characterised by both negative and positive aspects. The findings further revealed that where characters find it too difficult to relate with each other due to cultural differences, they resort to silence as a coping mechanism. Despite the interaction imperfections shown by the transcultural characters, this study argues that in a multipolar world, all cultures exist as both divergent and convergent entities, that allow characters to forge meaningful interactions albeit their differences. Despite these cultural differences, they cultivate complementarity or mutual dependability expressed in shared world view for continued interactions. These findings highlight transcultural encounters as a preoccupation in some of Gurnah’s novels. The study concludes that more studies should be conducted on Gurnah’s other novels for the way they treat the reality of interactions in transcultural encounters which characterise the current world with multipolar cultural realities.