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 ...

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

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

How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a moral lesson.

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In an email interview, the 2021 Nobel laureate talked about the pleasure of meeting new readers and why he writes about ...

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.

The first novel from Abdulrazak Gurnah since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, the seeds of Theft are sown in ...

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. “How do you think ...