LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph 'A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling storytelling ... You forget that you are reading fiction, it feels so real' Leila...(展开全部)

Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the right hand of an officer whose control has ensured his protection but marked him for ...(展开全部)

"SUM" is a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered-each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us t...(展开全部)

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. ...(展开全部)

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. ...(展开全部)

"SUM" is a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered-each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us t...(展开全部)

In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers like Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all are woven into Goyal’s arg...(展开全部)

Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy’s lyrical and...(展开全部)

◎全書搭配插畫家伊卡魯斯精心繪製的四十種死後生活面貌 ◎全書由知名設計家王志弘親手操刀設計 ◎《死後四十種生活》是一本適合隨身攜帶、隨時閱讀的小說 了解生命祕密的終極奇想── 四十種不可思議的死後世界 字宙間另一層生命的存在意義，即在消失後的生命依然擁有無限的可能性！ 在死後世界中，上帝如微生物般大小，所以無法察覺我們的存在。在另一種死後世界中，造物者是愚蠢的生物，祂創造人類是為了弄清楚自己能力不及之處。或者上帝如同《科學怪人》裡的法蘭克斯坦，製作出祂心馳神往的巔峰之作後，卻只想逃離其所創造的東西。又或者，在死後世界裡，上帝根本不存在。 我們到了死後世界，所有的事情會再重新發生，只是倒退著進行；或許順序全數重組，相同的事情聚集在一起，一次做個夠；或者我們可以同時享受所有可能，平行過著多重的生活；或者在死後世界裡，我們可以選擇下輩子要投胎轉化的物種。 ...(展开全部)

◎全書搭配插畫家伊卡魯斯精心繪製的四十種死後生活面貌 ◎全書由知名設計家王志弘親手操刀設計 ◎《死後四十種生活》是一本適合隨身攜帶、隨時閱讀的小說 了解生命祕密的終極奇想── 四十種不可思議的死後世界 字宙間另一層生命的存在意義，即在消失後的生命依然擁有無限的可能性！ 在死後世界中，上帝如微生物般大小，所以無法察覺我們的存在。在另一種死後世界中，造物者是愚蠢的生物，祂創造人類是為了弄清楚自己能力不及之處。或者上帝如同《科學怪人》裡的法蘭克斯坦，製作出祂心馳神往的巔峰之作後，卻只想逃離其所創造的東西。又或者，在死後世界裡，上帝根本不存在。 我們到了死後世界，所有的事情會再重新發生，只是倒退著進行；或許順序全數重組，相同的事情聚集在一起，一次做個夠；或者我們可以同時享受所有可能，平行過著多重的生活；或者在死後世界裡，我們可以選擇下輩子要投胎轉化的物種。 ...(展开全部)