“From the first assured pages of Afterlives, a book of quiet beauty and tragedy, it is clear one is in the hands of a master storyteller.” Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah “leads us by the hand into the world of German-occupied east Africa, before Germany lost its territories after defeat in the first world war.” (Financial Times, 10/22/20; The Economist, 10/7/21)
From the first assured pages of Afterlives
