{"product_id":"theft-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-isbn-9780593852620","title":"Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eTop 10 Fiction Book of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAt the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition. Fauzia glimpses in him a chance at escape from a smothering upbringing. The two of them offer a haven to Badar, a poor boy still unsure if the future holds anything for him at all. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, bringing, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTheft\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTheft\u003c\/i\u003e is complex in its themes of class and entitlement, but it’s also, fundamentally, a piece of great, satisfying storytelling to lose yourself in.”\u003cb\u003e—Samantha Harvey in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully done . . .By the time his story is complete — when the cord connecting everything is finally tied on the very last page — the reader can only rejoice at Gurnah’s skill.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tightly focused, beautifully controlled examination of friendship and betrayal.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vital addition to Gurnah’s remarkable body of work; a novel steeped in heartbreak and loss but one that ultimately refuses despair.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Entirely engrossing. . .There are no single truths in this steady, mature novel, which may be why it feels so true as a whole.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Intimate. . .but the way Gurnah writes it, it all comes off as pretty heroic.”—\u003cb\u003eNPR.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compassionate, revelatory. . .a kind of argument about the value of true character, about worth calibrated outside the marketplace of money, status and drama. . .[Gurnah’s] sentences follow the riverbed of some ancient legend, even as he describes complicated modern lives.”— \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A satisfying melodrama. . .[that] builds to an engrossing climax.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Marvellous - a book of incredible scope and unflinching intimacy that leaps fearlessly among its varied cast of characters. Absolutely devastating emotional precision. Abdulrazak Gurnah has written another classic.\"—\u003cb\u003eV V Ganeshananthan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"THEFT is not just a book. It is an entire universe . . .In these pages, we begin to recognize the generosity that remains even in moments of pain and chaos. We understand the pockets of light that still exist in those most turbulent days. Gurnah has done it again.\"—\u003cb\u003eMaaza Mengiste\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully rendered. . .a profound examination of lineages, legacies and lies.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTheft\u003c\/i\u003e takes many forms intimate and cultural, subtle and obvious in the newest web of interconnected lives masterfully spun by Nobel laureate Gurnah… Written with transfixing precision, wit, insight, and suspense, \u003ci\u003eTheft\u003c\/i\u003e is profoundly nuanced and revealing.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gurnah is a captivating, enthralling storyteller whose characters are vibrant and sympathetic. The pages fly by quickly in his wonderful new novel.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, STARRED review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gurnah delivers a story whose title reverberates throughout. . . No word is wasted. . .A tightly constructed family drama with surprising complications.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003eSTARRED review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At once culturally specific and emotionally universal. . . Gurnah is at the top of his game.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e STARRED review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eNothing about human behaviour surprises Gurnah, and in reading his wise new novel with its gentle and beautiful ending, we the readers become a bit less judgemental, and more ready to understand what it means to struggle, to dare, to love – what it means to be human.\"—\u003cb\u003eElif Shafak, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gurnah’s novels are written in an unshowy, elegant, often pleasingly old-fashioned prose that lends a certain beauty to stories that are sad and sometimes squalid.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A quietly powerful demonstration of storytelling mastery, at once coming-of-age chamber piece and wide-angled post-colonial panorama . . .The conclusion – crackling with jeopardy, ultimately cathartic – moves all \u003ci\u003eTheft\u003c\/i\u003e’s patiently assembled plotlines into place for a riveting denouement that is both unguessable yet entirely in keeping.\"\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This Nobel winner’s new novel is a hit . . .Gurnah has a gentle and lyrical style that lets his tightly plotted tale unspool like a fable.\"\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe London Standard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Timely and captivating … Simple yet elegant.\"\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGlamour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdulrazak Gurnah \u003c\/b\u003eis the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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