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BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021 'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were.. Lire la suite
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BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021
'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
