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Afterlives
Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing - paru en 2021
While 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. '
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- Livre en version originale (anglais).Dans une contrée indéterminée de la côte Est de l’Afrique, Afterlives retrace les destinées d’hommes et de femmes pris dans la tourmente de la colonisation allemande puis du premier conflit mondial. Dans un style épuré et précis, Gurnah sonde les choix individuels soumis aux aléas historiques. La question de la colonisation est également posée dans toute sa complexité ; c’est là la force d’Afterlives : ne jamais donner de réponses simplistes à des questions complexes. Une fresque historique puissante et attachante.
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- Sandrine C., Médiathèque Marguerite Yourcenar
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