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020			_a9781526653239
082			_a823.914 _bGUR
100			_aGurnah, Abdulrazak
245			_aAfterlives
260			_bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2021 _aLondon :
300			_a275 p.; _c20 cm
365			_b499.00 _cINR _d01
490			_aThe Nobel Prize 2021
520			_aRestless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the schutztruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the right hand of an officer whose control has ensured his protection but marked him for life. Hamza does not have words for how the war ended for him. Returning to the town of his childhood, all he wants is work, however humble, and security - and the beautiful Afiya. The century is young. The Germans and the British and the French and the Belgians and whoever else have drawn their maps and signed their treaties and divided up Africa. As they seek complete dominion they are forced to extinguish revolt after revolt by the colonised. The conflict in Europe opens another arena in east Africa where a brutal war devastates the landscape. As these interlinked friends and survivors come and go, live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away.
650			_aAfrica
650			_aColonization
650			_aDraftees
650			_aGerman colonies
650			_aVeterans
650			_aPostcolonialism
650			_aHistorical fiction
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