The latest novel by 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah doesn’t fit neatly into one genre. 'Afterlives' follows the lives of four characters in East Africa as they grapple with the consequences of colonization
he latest novel by 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah to be released in the U.S. doesn’t fit neatly into one genre., originally published in the U.K. in 2020, follows the lives of four characters in East Africa in the early 1900s as they grapple with the devastating consequences of colonization. What ensues is a bruising love story, a multi-generational epic, and a narrative about the brutalities of war.
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