Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Theft is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah, his first new book since he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Set in Tanzania as the twentieth century gives way to the twenty-first, it follows three young people coming of age as the world around them changes fast.

Karim comes home from university full of confidence and ambition; Fauzia sees in him a way out of a stifling upbringing; and together they take in Badar, a poor boy with little sense of what lies ahead for him. As tourism, technology and new opportunities arrive, each must decide what shaping their own fate really means. Quiet and humane, it suits readers of literary and African fiction.

• Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Format: Paperback, 256 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781526680105