“Afterlives” Abdulrazak Gurnah (2020) Review | A beautiful story told in a cruel and violent environment

★★★★★ A beautiful story told in a cruel and violent environment; war and colonisation. They must cling to little happiness or sadness that are their own. By a Nobel prize winner.

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Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2020
288 pages
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A beautiful story told in a cruel and violent environment; war and colonisation. 

It's a reminder that people's loves get messed up by the external horrible business of war, like African lives affected by wars that are happening in Europe, "nothing to do with us" 
But importantly, their lives can continue they can have little happiness or sadness that are their own, they must cling to them.
And a little magical and personal relationships with the coloniser and colonised makes the story hopeful, despite the violence that's surrounding them.

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Afterlives: A Novel 

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Afterlives: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Afterlives: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021