"Opening in Zanzibar in the aftermath of independence, his 11th novel, Theft, spans half a century as it documents the lives of Karim, Fauzia and Badar. We learn how young Karim is treated as an afterthought by his mother, Raya, who divorces her much older husband and leaves her son behind to start a new life. Mother and son are reunited several years later in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where Raya has married a pharmacist named Haji."
"Karim, who grows up to be handsome, intelligent and more than a little conceited, gets a scholarship to study in the city and meets Fauzia, who is training to be a teacher and is keen to avoid the fate of other mute daughter[s] laid out for deflowering. She and Karim marry, and the pair open their home to Badar, a former servant of Raya and Haji's who was abandoned by his parents as a child."
Opening in Zanzibar after independence, Theft spans half a century and follows Karim, Fauzia and Badar. Raya divorces her much older husband and leaves Karim behind; they reunite years later in Dar es Salaam where Raya has married a pharmacist named Haji. Karim earns a scholarship, meets and marries Fauzia, a trainee teacher wary of predatory men. The couple takes in Badar, a former servant abandoned in childhood. Tensions rise when an English NGO manager attracts Karim's attention, culminating in a dramatic denouement. Actor Ashley Zhangazha narrates the audiobook, skillfully shifting voices to convey interior lives and interconnected histories.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]