Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away." --New York Times

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.

When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes on his back-until he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya. As these young people live and work and fall in love, their fates knotted ever more tightly together, the shadow of a new war on another continent falls over them, threatening once again to carry them away.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak: - Abdulrazak Gurnah is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent and the author of seven successful novels.

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ISBN 13	9780593541890
ISBN 10	0593541898
Title	Afterlives
Author	Abdulrazak Gurnah
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2023-09-05
Number of pages	320
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