Theft - Abdulrazak Gurnah

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Tanzania

Written by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Read by Ashley Zhangazha
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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.

March 18 2025
9 hrs and 41 mins