Afterlives

★2021年诺贝尔文学奖得主作品

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021

LONGLISTED 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 Year

焦躁不安、野心勃勃的伊利亚斯从父母身边被德国殖民军队带走;多年后，他回到村子，发现父母已经不在了，妹妹阿菲亚也被送走了。

哈姆萨不是带来的，是被卖出去的;他是在德国殖民军队中长大的，在一名军官的左右，这名军官的掌控虽然确保了他的安全，但也给他留下了终身的印记。

这个世纪才刚刚开始，德国人，英国人，法国人，比利时人以及其他国家的人纷纷开始绘制地图，签署条约，瓜分非洲的人。殖民者寻求完全的统治时，哈姆萨他们被迫平反被殖民者一次又一次的叛乱。欧洲的冲突在东非开辟了另一个舞台，那里的残酷战争摧毁了这片土地。哈姆萨无法形容这场战争是如何结束的。他只想回到童年的家乡，他想要的只是一份无论多么卑微工作，个人的人身安全，以及美丽的阿菲亚而已。

随着这些相互联系的朋友和幸存者来来去去，生活、工作、坠入爱河，一场新的战争的阴影延长和黑暗，准备把他们带向另一个深渊

'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden

Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.

Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the right hand of an officer whose control has ensured his protection but marked him for life.

The century is young. The Germans and the British and the French and the Belgians and whoever else have drawn their maps and signed their treaties and divided up Africa. As they seek complete dominion they are forced to extinguish revolt after revolt by the colonised. The conflict in Europe opens another arena in east Africa where a brutal war devastates the landscape. Hamza does not have words for how the war ended for him. Returning to the town of his childhood, all he wants is work, however humble, and security – and the beautiful Afiya.

As these interlinked friends and survivors come and go, live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of nine 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 and Gravel Heart. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.