Afterlives

"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 year...

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Main Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
Edition:First United States edition.
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