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Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives (2021, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc) 2 stars

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the …

The book tells the life stories of a hand full of people in Eastern Africa (mostly what is now Tansania), stretched over more than 100 years. Their lives intertwine, it's written from different perspectives, and they're affected by world events in different ways. There's not really much tension in the story - but it's not boring either, it's a nice read. Though I found it a bit hard to imagine how old all the people were at any given time, because the book stretches over many decades. People are born, they age, have a life and eventually they die.