Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Afterlives
Responsibility statement
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Summary
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
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
After lives
Creator
Subject
- Postcolonialism -- Africa -- Fiction
- Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Africa, East -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Child slaves -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Draftees -- Fiction
- Child soldiers -- Fiction
- Homecoming -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Large type books
- Veterans -- Fiction
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject13
- Postcolonialism -- Africa -- Fiction
- Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Africa, East -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Child slaves -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Draftees -- Fiction
- Child soldiers -- Fiction
- Homecoming -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Large type books
- Veterans -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1