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“Abdulrazak Gurnah—who won the 2021 Nobel Prize for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.” His latest novel, Afterlives, is set in what is now Tanzania (then Tanganyika) during the period of German rule around the turn of the 20th century, following a large cast of characters facing oppression of various kinds during the run-up to the First World War.” Read more...
The Notable Novels of Summer 2022
Cal Flyn, Journalist
Afterlives, written by Nobel Prize winning Abdulrazak Gurnah, opens in the early years of the 20th century, during Germany’s brutal colonial rule in East Africa.
