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Afterlives

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內容簡介 ✰諾貝爾文學獎作家阿卜杜勒．拉扎克．古納經典佳作！強勢入圍2021年奧威爾獎政治小說獎！ 焦躁不安、野心勃勃的Restless被德國殖民軍從父母身邊帶走多年，當他再度回到村子中時，卻發現父母與妹妹已不在那裡…… 這是一個年輕的世紀與各國領土紛爭的故事，歐洲的衝突在東非開闢了一個舞台，而殘酷的戰爭卻摧毀了這片土地，隨著這些交互關聯錯綜複雜地發生，生活、工作、愛情會展生什麼樣的影響呢？LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden'Exquisite' Telegraph'A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna'Effortlessly compelling storytelling ... You forget that you are reading fiction, it feels so real' Leila AboulelaRestless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe 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 army, 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."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Abdulrazak GurnahAbdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.

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