Afterlives Quotes

“... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“The askari left the land devastated, its people starving and dying in the hundreds of thousands, while they struggled on in their blind and murderous embrace of a cause whose origins they did not know and whose ambitions were vain and ultimately intended for their domination.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“So what we can know for sure, Ilyas told his parents, is that someone loved Uncle Ilyas as enough to follow him to certain death in a concentration camp in order to keep him company.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“Abdulrazak Gurnah”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives