Gurnah, Abdulrazak 1948- creator author. text Historical fiction. Novels. nyu 2022 monographic eng

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309 pages ; 24 cm "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, is back from the war. He was not stolen but sold into service, where he became the protégé of an officer whose special interest has left him literally scarred for life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only steady work and safety - 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, ready to snatch them up and once again carry them away. Spanning from the end of the nineteenth century, when the Europeans carved up Africa, on through the tumultuous decades of revolt and suppression that followed, AFTERLIVES is an astonishingly moving portrait of survivors refusing to sacrifice their humanity to the violent forces that assail them"-- Abdulrazak Gurnah. f------ fe----- e-gx--- Africa, East Colonization History 20th century Fiction Germany Colonies Africa History 20th century Fiction PR9399.9.G87 A69 2022 823.914 GUR/A Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- New York : Riverhead Books, 2022 (DLC) 2021055897 9781526653239 9780593542552 (softcover) 9780593541883 2021055896 DLC 220119 20231005155516.0 22388831 eng