Afterlives -- Abdulrazak Gurnah - Hardcover

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.

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 08/23/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.33w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780593541883

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2022
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 39
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 89