Afterlives

{{Short description|2020 novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Afterlives

| image = Afterlives (Abdulrazak Gurnah).png

| caption = First edition

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| author = Abdulrazak Gurnah

| genre = Historical fiction

| publisher = Bloomsbury

| pub_date = 17 September 2020

| pages = 288

| isbn = 978-1-5266-1585-5

| preceded_by = Gravel Heart

}}

Afterlives is a 2020 work of historical fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibar-born British author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 17 September 2020.{{cite web |title=Afterlives |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afterlives-9781526615855/ |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |access-date=7 October 2021}} Set mainly in the first half of the 20th century, the plot follows four protagonists living in an unnamed town on the Swahili coast of what is now Tanzania from the time of German colonial rule until a few years after independence.{{cite news |last=Pilling |first=David |title=Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah — forgotten Africa |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ea00fcd9-22e0-4e1b-b4f0-0b2e47652ef7 |access-date=7 October 2021 |work=Financial Times |date=22 October 2020}}{{cite news |last=Carington |first=Francesca |title=Afterlives by Adbulrazak Gurnah, review: love and loss in German East Africa |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/afterlives-adbulrazah-gurnah-review-love-loss-german-east-africa/ |access-date=7 October 2021 |work=The Telegraph |date=7 October 2021}} It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize of Political Fiction.{{cite news|last1=Comerford|first1=Ruth|date=9 April 2021|title=Granta and Dialogue claim multiple titles on Orwell Prize longlists|work=The Bookseller|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/granta-and-dialogue-claim-multiple-titles-orwell-prize-longlists-1252623|access-date=7 October 2021}}{{Cite web |title=The Orwell Prizes 2021: The Shortlists {{!}} The Orwell Foundation |url=https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/news-events/news-events/news/the-orwell-prizes-2021-the-shortlists/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.orwellfoundation.com |language=en-GB}}