While searching her parents' East Village home's storage for childhood mementos, Calhoun stumbled across some cassettes of interviews her art critic fathe. Profoundly rich in history and culture, this novel provides strong evidence for Gurnah's growing literary reputation. Their lives converge in ways that subtly reflect the underlying historical forces at work, and the author allows a mysterious absence to gradually shift into the foreground as the next generation sows the seeds for a post-colonial future. And Hamza is an askari (local soldier) working for the Germans against British colonial forces as the forces leading to World War I play out in Africa. Afiya is the orphaned younger sister he never knew he had until Ilyas visits home. Ilyas was kidnapped by Germans as a boy from his village and trained as a soldier. Khalifa is a Gujarati man who finds employment as an accountant and ends up marrying into the boss's family. Set against the backdrop of European colonialism in early twentieth century East Africa, the latest novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021 Nobel Prize for Literature winner) tells a story of family and entrepreneurship disrupted by war. Set against the backdrop of European colonialism in early twentieth century East Africa, the latest novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021 Nobel Prize for Liter.
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