Afterlives

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reviewed by Georgia Black
in June 2023

A young man returns to his village to find his family devastated.

“You want me to tell you about myself as if I have a complete story. But all I have are fragments which are snagged by troubling gaps” – Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

Published: 2022
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593541883

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