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Erstmals auf Deutsch: Gurnahs bewegender Coming-of-age-Roman über Verrat, Migration und die Suche nach dem Platz im LebenSalim ist sieben, als sein Vater Masud die Familie von einem Tag auf den anderen verlässt. Etwas musste gründlich schief gelaufen sein, nur was? Für den scheuen Jungen beginnen Jahre der Suche nach seinem Platz im Leben, angetrieben von einem diffusen Gefühl der Schuld und der Frage, 'wer ich eigentlich war'. Nur langsam taucht Salim in die Geheimnisse seiner Familie ein und begreift, wie sie mit der Geschichte seiner Heimat verquickt sind. Warmherzig und sinnlich beschreibt Abdulrazak Gurnah, wie Leerstellen über unsere Vergangenheit die Zukunft unserer Kinder prägen. Er erschafft dabei Charaktere, die man so schnell nicht vergisst.SWR Bestenliste Platz 1, ORF Bestenliste Platz 2, SPIEGEL Bestseller - dieser Nobelpreisträger für Literatur bewegt die Menschen!'Die Eleganz und Souveränität, mit der Gurnah schreibt, sein Verständnis dafür, wie leise, langsam und wiederholt ein Herz brechen kann, machen diesen Roman zu einer tiefen Quelle der Freude.' Guardian

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE<BR><BR>'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times<BR><BR>'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times<BR><BR>On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. <BR><BR>Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, an astounding meditation on family, self and the meaning of home.<BR><BR>Abbas has never told anyone about his past-before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a drugstore in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to.<BR><BR>Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark blue eyes and her own complex story to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother, Maryam, who has never thought to find herself-until now.

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa <BR><BR>**Selected as a book to look out for in 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and BBC**<BR>**A Time Book of the Year 2025**<BR><BR>'A poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal' Guardian<BR>'Storytelling mastery' Observer<BR>_________________________________________________________<BR><BR>Badar's story truly begins on the day when, aged fifteen, he is brought to Mistress's great house in Dar es Salaam - where he proves a quick learner, and gains the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house.<BR><BR> But then a false accusation sees Badar banished from the place he has come to call home. Exiled, to a run-down hotel on the coast of Zanzibar, Badar must build a new life for himself. And when Karim comes to see his old friend in his new life, he is captivated by temptations that will test the two young men's friendship to a breaking point.<BR><BR>**Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Awards 2026: Fiction With A Sense of Place**

**Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, Financial Times, Granta, Economist and the BBC**<BR>**Selected as a book of the year 2025 by the Financial Times and Time Magazine**<BR><BR><BR>The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa <BR><BR>'A poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal' Guardian<BR>'Storytelling mastery' Observer<BR>'A piece of great, satisfying storytelling to lose yourself in' Samantha Harvey, Guardian Books of the Summer<BR>'The reader can only rejoice at Gurnah's skill in giving us the whole of a life in such nimble scenes' Financial Times<BR>'Another glittering tapestry of a novel from a master storyteller of our times' Irish Times<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________<BR><BR>What are we given, and what do we have to take for ourselves? <BR><BR>It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people - Karim, Fauzia and Badar - are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation. But for Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents, it seems as if all doors are closed. <BR><BR>Brought into a lowly position in a great house in Dar es Salaam, Badar finds the first true home of his life - and the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house. Even when a shattering false accusation sees Badar sent away, Karim and Fauzia refuse to turn away from their friend. <BR><BR>But as the three of them take their first steps in love, infatuation, work and parenthood, their bond is tested - and Karim is tempted into a betrayal that will change all of their lives forever.<BR><BR>'In reading this wise new novel, we the readers become a bit more ready to understand what it means to be human' Elif Shafak, New Statesman<BR><BR>'Storytelling mastery, at once coming-of-age chamber piece and wide-angled post-colonial panorama . narrated in a quicksilver style that gives you the pleasurable sense that you're putty in the hands of a warm yet clear-eyed authorial intelligence' Observer

Der aktuelle Roman des Literaturnobelpreisträgers erstmals auf Deutsch: Eine erschütternde, generationsübergreifende Saga über Krieg und Liebe zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.Ilyas ist elf, als er sein Zuhause an der ostafrikanischen Küste verlässt und für die deutschen Kolonialtruppen zwangsrekrutiert wird. Jahre später findet er die Hütte seiner Familie verlassen und seine kleinen Schwester Afiya bei Fremden, die sie schlecht behandeln. Auch ein anderer junger Mann kehrt in diesen Tagen zurück: Hamza hatte sich freiwillig den deutschen Truppen angeschlossen. Mit nichts als den Kleidern am Leib sucht er nun Arbeit und Sicherheit - und findet die Liebe der klugen Afiya. Während das Schicksal die jungen Menschen zusammenführt, während sie sich verlieben und versuchen, mit den dunklen Schatten der Vergangenheit zu leben, rückt aus Europa ein weiterer Weltkrieg in bedrohliche Nähe.Abdulrazak Gurnah wurde 2021 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. 'Nachleben' war nominiert für den Walter Scott Prize und den Orwell Prize for Fiction.'Gurnah erzählt verdammt großartige Geschichten.' DIE ZEIT

'Ein großes Werk.' NZZ - Einer der Höhepunkte im Romanwerk des Literaturnobelpreisträgers endlich wieder auf Deutsch!Sansibar in den frühen 1950er-Jahren: Inmitten politischer Umwälzungen und Aufständen gegen die Kolonialherren wachsen die Geschwister Amin, Rashid und Farida auf. Amin, der Mittlere der Brüder, verliebt sich in Jamila, doch beider Leidenschaft zerbricht schon bald am Widerstand seiner Familie und Gerüchten um die Vergangenheit der jungen Frau. Es heißt, ein Fluch liege auf ihrer Verwandtschaft. Im Strudel der Revolution trennen sich die Lebenswege der Geschwister. Rashid beginnt ein Studium in London, das Schicksal von Amin und Jamila lässt ihn aber selbst in der Ferne nicht los. Er begibt sich auf eine Spurensuche, die ihn tief in die afrikanische Kolonialgeschichte führt - und bis zum Geheimnis um Jamilas Familie. Deren Großmutter hatte für eine verbotene Liebe zu einem britischen Orientalisten einst alles riskiert... 'Die Abtrünnigen' zeigt Nobelpreisträger Abdulrazak Gurnah erneut als großartigen, politisch hellsichtigen Erzähler von Geschichten, wie wir sie noch nie zuvor gelesen haben.

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature <BR><BR>'Demands to be read and reread, for its humour, generosity of spirit and clear-sighted vision' Evening Standard<BR><BR>'Gurnah zooms in on individual acts of violence ... and unexpected acts of kindness' Daily Telegraph<BR>________________________<BR><BR>Demoralised by small persecutions and the squalor and poverty of his life, Daud takes refuge in his imagination. He composes wry, sardonic letters hectoring friends and enemies, and invents a lurid colonial past for every old man he encounters. His greatest solace is cricket and the symbolic defeat of the empire at the hands of the mighty West Indies.<BR><BR>Although subject to attacks of bitterness and remorse, his captivating sense of humour never deserts him as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England.

'Eines dieser seltenen Bücher, die man in sich aufsaugt und niemals vergisst.' Rheinische PostSalim ist sieben, als sein Vater Masud die Familie von einem Tag auf den anderen verlässt. Die Erinnerungen an sein Lachen, an zärtliche Umarmungen, rosa Zuckerwatte und gemeinsame Stunden auf den Treppenstufen vor dem Elternhaus stehen Salim klar vor Augen. Etwas musste gründlich schief gelaufen sein, nur was? Für den scheuen Jungen beginnen Jahre der Suche nach seinem Platz im Leben, angetrieben von einem diffusen Gefühl der Schuld und der Frage, 'wer ich eigentlich war'. Nur langsam taucht Salim in die Geheimnisse seiner Familie ein und begreift, wie sie mit der Geschichte seiner Heimat verquickt sind. Warmherzig und sinnlich beschreibt Abdulrazak Gurnah, wie Leerstellen über unsere Vergangenheit die Zukunft unserer Kinder prägen. Er erschafft dabei Charaktere, die man so schnell nicht vergisst.SWR Bestenliste Platz 1, ORF Bestenliste Platz 2, SPIEGEL Bestseller - dieser Nobelpreisträger für Literatur bewegt die Menschen!'Die Eleganz und Souveränität, mit der Gurnah schreibt, sein Verständnis dafür, wie leise, langsam und wiederholt ein Herz brechen kann, machen diesen Roman zu einer tiefen Quelle der Freude.' Guardian

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021<BR><BR>A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past<BR><BR>'Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth' The Times<BR><BR>_________________________________<BR><BR>Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain.<BR><BR>At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature<BR><BR>'The elegance and control of Gurnah's writing, and his understanding of how quietly and slowly and repeatedly a heart can break, make this a deeply rewarding novel' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian<BR> ________________________<BR>For seven-year-old Salim, the pillars upholding his small universe - his indifferent father, his adored uncle, his treasured books, the daily routines of government school and Koran lessons - seem unshakeable.<BR><BR>But it is the 1970s, and the winds of change are blowing through Zanzibar: suddenly Salim's father is gone, and the island convulses with violence and corruption the wake of a revolution. It will only be years later, making his way through an alien and hostile London, that Salim will begin to understand the shame and exploitation festering at the heart of his family's history. <BR> ________________________<BR>'Riveting . The measured elegance of Gurnah's prose renders his protagonist in a manner almost uncannily real' New York Times<BR><BR>'Glittering ... Each work is different from the last, yet they build into a powerfully evocative oeuvre that keeps coming back to the same questions, in spare, graceful prose, about the ties that bind and the ties that fray' Telegraph<BR><BR>'A colourful tale of life in a Zanzibar village, where passions and politics reshape a family. Powerful' Mail on Sunday