AFTERLIVES
BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian
'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.
Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the beautiful Afiya.
As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee
'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole' Maaza Mengiste
'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
GURNAH ABDULRAZAK
Abdulrazak Gurnah Zanzíbar, 1948 es un escritor de origen tanzano afincado en Inglaterra desde hace más de medio siglo. Doctorado en 1982 por la Universidad de Kent, ejerció la docencia en las universidades de Bayero Kano, Nigeria y Kent, donde impartió literatura inglesa y poscolonial hasta su jubilación en 2017. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature desde 2006 y autor de numerosos cuentos, ensayos y una decena de novelas, entre las que destacan Paraíso, nominada para los premios Booker y Whitbread, A orillas del mar, La vida, después y El desertor, todas ellas publicadas por Salamandra. Considerado uno de los escritores poscoloniales más relevantes, en 2021 fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura por su "conmovedora descripción de los efectos del colonialismo y la historia de los refugiados en el abismo entre culturas y continentes ".
