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「來世（Afterlives）」是古納（Abdulrazak Gurnah）2020年的作品，故事描述20世紀初的東非，德國的殖民統治即將結束，主角伊利亞斯回到家鄉卻發現父母去世，妹妹阿菲亞也已送給人收養；另一方面，士兵哈姆扎也在戰後返家，遇見美麗單純的阿菲亞，兩人共組家庭，並生下一子，以阿菲亞的哥哥之名命名，生活看似平靜下來，不安的陰霾卻正悄悄降臨。
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it is Germany that perpetrated the first genocide of the 20th century in the 1904 extermination campaign to quell the Herero and Nama uprising in Namibia. Across the continent in East Africa, or Deutsch-Ostafrika, Germany’s military tactics were equally deadly. Abdulrazak Gurnah’s sprawling yet intimate new novel Afterlives is set against
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the backdrop of these atrocities. Unfolding in what was then Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, it opens with a gentle and unassuming sentence: “Khalifa was twenty-six years old when he met the merchant Amur Biashara.”
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When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find hisparents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes
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the clothes on his back–until he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya. As these young people live and work and fall in love, their fates knotted ever more tightly together, the shadow of a new war
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