Afterlife

Not long before World War I, fate brings the main characters together on the East Coast of Africa. Hamza and Ilyas serve alongside German soldiers — and return home. Afia is under the care of a strict family, where she is tormented for her ability to read. The paths of the young people cross, they try to build a normal life, but the shadow of the impending war threatens to destroy their fragile world. Meaningless malice and complex relationships between oppressors and the oppressed, deep love, cruelty, and the consequences of colonial policy — in the new novel by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. «Afterlife» has gained wide recognition for its depiction of the little-studied topic of the lives of Africans abducted to fight for Europe. It is published in Russian for the first time.