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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)

A Novel

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Length TBA

Language English

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Summary
About the author

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition. Fauzia glimpses in him a chance at escape from a smothering upbringing. The two of them offer a haven to Badar, a poor boy still unsure if the future holds anything for him at all. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, bringing, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.

Fiction Historical Fiction Fiction - Literary

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Desertion. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. He lives in Canterbury, England.

Audiobook details

Author:
Abdulrazak Gurnah

ISBN:
9798217016150

Length:
TBA

Language:
English

Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

Publication date:
March 18, 2025

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#5,179 Overall

Genre rank:
#503 in Historical Fiction

Reviews

Praise for Theft

“Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gurnah delivers a story whose title reverberates throughout. . . No word is wasted. . .A tightly constructed family drama with surprising complications.” —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review

“At once culturally specific and emotionally universal. . . Gurnah is at the top of his game.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Praise for Abdulrazak Gurnah

"[Gurnah] is a novelist nonpareil, a master of the art form who understands human failings in conflicts both political and intimate — and how these shortcomings create afflictions from which nations and individuals continue to suffer, needlessly, generation after generation.” —New York Times Book Review

"Gurnah's greatest act of love and artistry [is] his ability to gather the fragments of broken lives and create a breathtaking mosaic in print." —The Washington Post Expand reviews