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Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. - [8], 275 stron ; 20 cm.

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Gurnah Abdulrazak (1948- )

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Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura angielska Literatura tanzańska

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I wojna światowa (1914-1918) II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Afrykanie Kolonializm Niemcy (naród) Pamięć zbiorowa Przemoc Rodzeństwo Suahili (lud) Trudne sytuacje życiowe Wybory życiowe Żołnierze Afryka Wschodnia Tanganika (Tanzania)

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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...

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