Afterlives
11 hrs. 40 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Description
A novel about Africa, written as if it were a fairy tale passed from mouth to mouth.
As a child, Ilyas was kidnapped by German colonial soldiers and taken from the East Coast of Africa. They raised him to become a warrior who would fight against his own people. Years later, he returns to his native village. His home is destroyed, his parents are gone, and his sister Afia is effectively handed over into slavery.
Hamza, wounded in both soul and body, also returns home. He searches for work, safety, and love—in the embrace of beautiful, fearless Afiya.
The young people’s fates intertwine ever more closely, but the shadow of a new war threatens again to destroy the fragile world.
First time in Russian: a new novel by the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.
As a child, Ilyas was kidnapped by German colonial soldiers and taken from the East Coast of Africa. They raised him to become a warrior who would fight against his own people. Years later, he returns to his native village. His home is destroyed, his parents are gone, and his sister Afia is effectively handed over into slavery.
Hamza, wounded in both soul and body, also returns home. He searches for work, safety, and love—in the embrace of beautiful, fearless Afiya.
The young people’s fates intertwine ever more closely, but the shadow of a new war threatens again to destroy the fragile world.
First time in Russian: a new novel by the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.
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