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Afterlives: A Novel

byAbdulrazak Gurnah

When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. Drawing on character, setting, dialogue, and narrative tension, the narrative gives Afterlives a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the novel becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within fiction. Afterlives ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780593541883