Por Ángela Margarita Suárez-Orellano
Te invitamos a conocer a Abdulrazak Gurnah, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021, el autor de origen africano fue galardonado por “conmovedora descripción de los efectos del colonialismo y la historia de los refugiados en el abismo entre culturas y continentes.”
Encuéntralo como: https://unisabana.overdrive.com/media/7816793?cid=258555
Reseña: una historia de iniciación ambientada en África a principios del siglo XX en una época previa a la Primera Guerra Mundial y protagonizada por un niño de doce años llamado Yusuf. Su padre, un hombre rico, lo vende como sirviente a un comerciante árabe, Aziz, con quien tiene cuentas pendientes […]. Yusuf marcha ilusionado a vivir con Aziz pero pronto descubrirá que su vida es un duro trabajo, casi esclavizado […]. […]. Paraíso presenta una temática con perfiles duros que cuenta el proceso de transformación de un continente en paralelo a la crónica del despertar a la vida de un adolescente africano, un niño sensible y valiente que constituye el centro neurálgico de la narración ya que el relato está contado a partir de su punto de vista. Paraíso es un retrato evocador de África en el que su autor denuncia las consecuencias del colonialismo, la corrupción, las diferencias entre culturas así como la penosa vida de los refugiados […].
Fuente: Troa < https://www.troa.es/libro/paraiso_1222946>
Encuéntralo como: https://unisabana.overdrive.com/media/5358739?cid=1217186
Reseña: Set amidst the colonial conflict of Africa, where Germans, British, Belgians and the French are struggling for control, ‘Afterlives’ is the story of Ilyas and Hamza. Ilyas is a young man who was stolen from his parents by German troops. Hamza, on the other hand, was sold and has been brought up under the protection of an officer who now lays full claim over him. After getting done with the war, Hamza returns home to the same place where Ilyas lived and is now in search of a job, security and love- in Ilyas’ sister Afiya, who was given away by their parents. The book captures one of the most prominent consequences of the imminent First World War and colonization -the life and struggles of African citizens who were stolen or bought to fight for Europe.
The book has been widely acclaimed for its depiction of a prominent but rarely explored theme of the lives of soldiers who fight for the colonizer.
Fuente: Times of India < https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/reviews/micro-review-afterlives-by-abdulrazak-gurnah/articleshow/86870903.cms>
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Reseña: A man escapes from his native Zanzibar to England. His furtive departure makes it unlikely that he will ever return, but he and his family agree a bright future lies ahead. He meets an English woman and they build a life together. She is writing a thesis on narrative theory; he becomes a teacher in a cramped London school. His release is to weave stories, often fictional, for her and her comfortably suburban parents. These are romantic and reassuring tales of postcolonial Africa, of the scented terrace where he would sit and listen to his mother’s lyrical voice. But for all these stories of warmth and hospitality, the man has not heard from his family since his departure, nor has he written to tell them of his new life. And then the barriers come down and he is able, finally, to return for a visit. He finds a different country, more ramshackle than he had ever imagined or remembered, a country that allows him to see his life with a new clarity. Out of this confrontation he comes to understand the transformations that have be fallen him.
Fuente: Goodreads < https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77819.Admiring_Silence>