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Afterlives: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Autor Abdulrazak Gurnah
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2021

Lectura romanului Afterlives evocă o stare de melancolie profundă, o scufundare într-un trecut pe care istoria oficială l-a lăsat prea des în umbră. Cititorul va simți greutatea tăcerii care se așterne peste viețile celor „uitați”, într-o atmosferă unde frumusețea peisajului est-african contrastează dureros cu brutalitatea colonialismului german. Reținem aici nu doar un conflict militar, ci o cronică a supraviețuirii intime: povestea lui Ilyas, furat de trupele coloniale, și a lui Hamza, vândut propriei armate, ale căror destine se împletesc cu cel al Afiyei într-o încercare fragilă de a găsi iubirea și siguranța.

Subliniem modul în care Abdulrazak Gurnah refuză spectacolul violenței, alegând în schimb să exploreze urmele psihologice lăsate de „protecția” unui ofițer german asupra lui Hamza sau trauma reîntoarcerii într-un sat unde familia a dispărut. Ca și în Paradise, autorul explorează pierderea inocenței în fața corupției coloniale, dar dintr-o perspectivă care pune un accent mai mare pe consecințele pe termen lung ale războiului asupra comunităților locale și pe legăturile de familie care se încăpățânează să reziste. Dacă în By the Sea accentul cădea pe experiența azilului în Marea Britanie, Afterlives ne întoarce la rădăcinile acestui dezrădăcinări, investigând fracturile istorice din Africa de Est.

Proza este una de o eleganță discretă, evitând superlativele pentru a lăsa faptele să vorbească. Este o experiență de lectură care nu grăbește ritmul, ci invită la o contemplare atentă a modului în care marile evenimente globale „înghit” și rescriu destinele individuale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526615893
ISBN-10: 1526615894
Pagini: 275
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Afterlives celor care caută o literatură de o înaltă ținută morală și stilistică. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nuanțată asupra unei perioade istorice puțin discutate — prezența germană în Africa — prin prisma unor personaje memorabile. Este o carte despre demnitate în condiții de opresiune, ideală pentru cititorii care au apreciat profunzimea tematică din Gravel Heart sau The Last Gift.


Despre autor

Abdulrazak Gurnah, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 2021, s-a născut în Zanzibar în 1948 și a emigrat în Marea Britanie ca refugiat la sfârșitul anilor '60. Această experiență personală a strămutării i-a marcat întreaga operă, transformându-l într-unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori postcoloniali contemporani. Deși limba sa maternă este swahili, scrie în engleză, împletind tradiții literare diverse, de la Shakespeare la poezia arabă. A fost profesor de literatură engleză și postcolonială la Universitatea din Kent, dedicându-și cariera academică și literară analizării efectelor colonialismului și suferinței refugiaților.


Descriere

BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the YearWhile he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away.'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers . He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee 'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole' Maaza Mengiste'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times


Recenzii

An aural archive of a lost Africa ... alive with the unexpected. In it, an obliterated world is enthrallingly retrieved
This is an epic story, set in an environment unfamiliar to many, but Gurnah's understanding of the background and his mastery of the history of the period brings it vividly alive.
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
A tender account of the extraordinariness of ordinary lives, Afterlives combines entrancing storytelling with writing whose exquisite emotional precision confirms Gurnah's place among the outstanding stylists of modern English prose. Like its predecessors, this is a novel that demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision of the infinite contradictions of human nature
Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure.
In clean, measured prose, Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness. Affecting in its ordinariness, Afterlives is a compelling exploration of the urge to find places of sanctuary
A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer, deeply compelling, a thread that links our humanity with the colonial legacy that lies beneath, in ways that cut deep

To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling as Abdulrazak Gurnah takes us to the place where imagined lives collide with history. In prose as clear and as rhythmic as the waters of the Indian Ocean, the story of Hamza and Afiya is one of simple lives buffeted by colonial ambitions, of the courage it takes to endure, to hold oneself with dignity, and to live with hope in the heart
Effortlessly compelling storytelling ... Gurnah excels at depicting the lives of those made small by cruelty and injustice ... A beautiful, cruel world of bittersweet encounters and pockets of compassion, twists of fate and fluctuating fortunes ... You forget that you are reading fiction, it feels so real
Gurnah is a master storyteller
As beautifully written and pleasurable as anything I've read ... The work of a maestro
Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... one scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment
Many layered, violent, beautiful and strange ... a poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding power of the unknown
A powerfully evocative oeuvre that keeps coming back to the same questions, in spare, graceful prose, about the ties that bind and the ties that fray
A vibrant and vivid novel which shows human beings in all their generosity and greed, pettiness and nobility, so that even minor characters seem capable of carrying entire novels all by themselves
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a master of his craft ... An intricate, delicate novel, vitally necessary
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a master of his craft ... An intricate, delicate novel, vitally necessary

Caracteristici

The story of the African soldiers recruited and often stolen to fight for European colonisers, the profoundly humane and compellingAfterlivesis an unmissable addition to contemporary African literature

Notă biografică

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.