Afterlives News Today

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers of notable books.

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Ahead of his Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures' appearance, learn more about Abdulrazak Gurnah and his novel, Afterlives. The story examines how the colony Deutsch-Ostafrika, or German East Africa, ruled with an iron fist in the region, affecting the lives of millions of Africans. It can be read as historical fiction, as an adventure novel, and, ultimately, as a love story.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

“Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa.

An investigation into the overdose epidemic by Beth Macy; new fiction from Abdulrazak Gurnah, Banana Yoshimoto, Mohsin Hamid and Anthony Marra — and plenty more.

Reading Gurnah is a bit like watching a Ray film rather than a Kurosawa or Ghatak

A leading Kenyan author, journalist and academic lists his top picks.

LONDON, Oct 10 — Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian-born author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, forged a critically acclaimed 35-year career rooted in colonialism and immigration after arriving in Britain as a refugee. The novelist was born on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of...