Afterlife. Gurna A.

Shortly before the First World War, fate reduces the main characters on the east coast of Africa. Hamza and Ilyas serve on the side of German soldiers - and return home. Afia is in the care of a strict family, where she is tortured for the ability to read. The paths of young people intersect, they try to build an ordinary life, but the shadow of the coming war threatens to destroy the fragile world.

The meaningless anger and difficult relations of the oppressors and depressed, deep love, cruelty and consequences of colonial policy are in the nobel laureate novel The literature of 2021.

“afterlife” has gained wide recognition thanks to the description of the little -studied theme of the life of Africans, stolen to struggle for Europe. In Russian it is published for the first time.