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Afterlives

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Afterlives is a 2020 work of historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibar-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 17 September 2020. Set mainly in the first half of the 20th century, the plot follows four protagonists living in an unnamed town on the Swahili coast of what is now Tanzania from the time of German colonial rule until a few years after independence. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize of Political Fiction.

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GenreLiterary fiction· first published 2020

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From the bibliography of a 21st-century Nobel laureate in literature, alongside "Theft" and "Paradise".

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