THEFT

246pp., paperback, Bloomsbury, London, 2025

ISBN:9781526680105

A coming-of-age novel set in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1990s. 

"Storytelling mastery, at once coming-of-age chamber piece and wide-angled post-colonial panorama ... narrated in a quicksilver style that gives you the pleasurable sense that you're putty in the hands of a warm yet clear-eyed authorial intelligence' Observer

"In reading this wise new novel, we the readers become a bit more ready to understand what it means to be human" Elif Shafak, New Statesman

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. His novels include Gravel Heart, Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift and Afterlives (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize). He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury.