{"product_id":"afterlives-paperback","title":"Afterlives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbdulrazak Gurnah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA NEW YORKER \u003cb\u003e\"ESSENTIAL READ\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOOKPAGE\u003c\/i\u003e, AND \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away.\u003cb\u003e\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003euntil 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdulrazak Gurnah\u003c\/b\u003e is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of nine previous novels, including \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), \u003ci\u003eBy the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and \u003ci\u003eDesertion.\u003c\/i\u003e Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent; he lives in Canterbury, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.72 x 4.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41955803562119,"sku":"9780593541890","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4cd74f4a3b064c8e5490032a66fa9535.webp?v=1734074164","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/afterlives-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}