In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft” (Riverhead, 304 pages, $30), a Tanzanian servant named Badar is listening to an anecdote being ...

This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an ...

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more ...

The Nobel committee’s citation praised Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft” examines the lives of an expanding family of characters in Tanzania in the late 20th century.

This week’s reviews feature something for all genre lovers, from a post-colonial coming-of-age story to an anthology of the ...

The birds are out! The flowers are budding! And my picnic blanket is officially rolling out! There’s nothing quite like the ...

India Block2 minutes ago I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania.

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new ...

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a ...