Afterlives

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<p><b>BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION</b><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE</b><br><b><br>'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure'</b> Maaza Mengiste, <i>Guardian</i><br><b><br>'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' </b>Philippe Sands, <i>New Statesman</i>, Books of the Year<br><b>_______________</b><br>While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.<br><br>Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the beautiful Afiya. <br><br>As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away.<br><b>_______________</b><br><b>'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers . </b><b>He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' </b>Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee<br><br><b>'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, </b><b>if not fully whole' </b>Maaza Mengiste<br><b><br>'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... O

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526615893

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 126 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK