{"product_id":"afterlives-a-novel-2","title":"Afterlives: A Novel","description":"ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022\n\nA NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”\n\nA NATIONAL BESTSELLER\n\nNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS\n\n“Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away.” —New York Times\n\nFrom the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.\n\nWhen he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes on his back–until he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya. As these young people live and work and fall in love, their fates knotted ever more tightly together, the shadow of a new war on another continent falls over them, threatening once again to carry them away.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 059354188X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKTGN000FWJ_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gurnah, Abdulrazak\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41759603228730,"sku":"4EKTGN000FWJ_ns","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/059354188X-0.jpg?v=1792122031","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/afterlives-a-novel-2","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}