Book of the Month Feb 2023: Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Happy New Year, book lovers!

We’re excited to announce our first book club pick for 2023: Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

About the book:
When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes on his backuntil he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya. As these young people live and work and fall in love, their fates knotted ever more tightly together, the shadow of a new war on another continent falls over them, threatening once again to carry them away.

We hope you’ll enjoy reading the book nominated by our Account Manager, Anuradha Sarang.