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SUMMARY:Classics & Contemporary Book Discussion
LOCATION:Wilmette Public Library\nWilmette Public Library
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DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah..\nhttps://
 wilmette.libnet.info/event/16874110
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in
  Literature\, a sweeping\, multi-generational saga of displacement\, loss\
 , and love\, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.</p>\n<p>W
 hen 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 his parents 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 on hi
 s back&ndash\;until he meets the beautiful\, undaunted Afiya. As these you
 ng people live and work and fall in love\, their fates knotted ever more t
 ightly together\, the shadow of a new war on another continent falls over 
 them\, threatening once again to carry them away. (From the publisher)</p>
 \n<p>Copies of the book are available&nbsp\;<a href="https://ccs.polarisli
 brary.com/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=55.1033.0.0.53&amp\;type=K
 eyword&amp\;term=afterlives%20abdulrazak&amp\;by=KW&amp\;sort=RELEVANCE&am
 p\;limit=&amp\;query=&amp\;page=0&amp\;searchid=1">here</a>. Ebook and aud
 iobook copies are available through&nbsp\;<a href="https://dlil.overdrive.
 com/">Digital Library of Illinois</a>&nbsp\;or the Libby app.&nbsp\;</p>\n
 <p>For those who would like to purchase a copy of&nbsp\;<em>Afterlives</em
 >\,&nbsp\;please support our local independent bookstore\,&nbsp\;The Book 
 Stall&nbsp\;at 811 Elm Street in Winnetka. Copies may also be available at
  Books Down Under on the Lower Level of the library. Proceeds benefit the 
 Friends of the Wilmette Public Library.&nbsp\;</p>\nhttps://wilmette.libne
 t.info/event/16874110
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