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Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025
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.
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"[Gurnah] is a novelist nonpareil, a master of the art form who understands human failings in conflicts both political and intimate — and how these shortcomings create afflictions from which nations and individuals continue to suffer, needlessly, generation after generation."
— New York Times Book Review
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At once culturally specific and emotionally universal. . . Gurnah is at the top of his game.
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Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gurnah delivers a story whose title reverberates throughout. . . No word is wasted. . .A tightly constructed family drama with surprising complications.
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At once culturally specific and emotionally universal. . . Gurnah is at the top of his game.
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Gurnah's greatest act of love and artistry [is] his ability to gather the fragments of broken lives and create a breathtaking mosaic in print.
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Gurnah is a captivating, enthralling storyteller whose characters are vibrant and sympathetic. The pages fly by quickly in his wonderful new novel.
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Theft takes many forms intimate and cultural, subtle and obvious in the newest web of interconnected lives masterfully spun by Nobel laureate Gurnah… Written with transfixing precision, wit, insight, and suspense, Theft is profoundly nuanced and revealing.
— Booklist, STARRED review
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About Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and By the Sea, longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is professor emeritus of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, England.