"... wie ein Weichtier ..., das seine Schale abgestreift hatte und nun ungeschützt ausgeliefert dalag" (A. #Gurnah, Das verlorene Paradies).
#Literatur

Lots of posts with #book reading lists :blob3c: . I don't have one but just finished #Afterlives by A. #Gurnah & highly recommend it. Set in Deutsch Ost-Afrika/Eng. East Africa, it's the story of an orphan who is rescued from her abusive caretakers by her long-lost brother. Her story intersects with that of a former soldier who is scarred from his time in the colonial army and that of a half-Indian merchant. Gurnah is a great storyteller (Nobel 21) and quietly takes you to a very different world

1/2 Two parallel lives, compared for the first time here.

#Abdulrazak #Gurnah:
1948: born in Zanzibar to migrant parents from Yemen.
1967: flees the Revolution to SE England (Kent) with brother.
1985: becomes a lecturer at the University of Kent.
1987: publishes first novel.
1991: publishes first scholarly article.
2021: wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

Le prix #Nobel de #littérature 2021 attribué au romancier tanzanien Abdulrazak #Gurnah

Le natif de Zanzibar, auteur de dix romans dont « Paradise » et « Près de la mer », a été récompensé pour sa narration « empathique et sans compromis des effets du colonialisme ».

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/10/07/le-prix-nobel-de-litterature-2021-attribue-au-romancier-tanzanien-abdulrazak-gurnah_6097478_3246.html