New novel by Gurnah: Masterful storytelling

Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel after the Nobel Prize, "Theft", receives radiant criticism in The Guardian: "A low-key powerful display of masterful storytelling" writes the newspaper's critic.

"Theft" (Theft) deals with the coming of age of three East African youths. The Guardian describes it as a postcolonial panorama, told with "a mercurial style" and "a warm but also clear-eyed intelligence and authority" according to critic Anthony Cummins. The heightened expectations after the Nobel Prize are fulfilled, he thinks.

Gurnah has lived in England for many years but was born in 1948 on Zanzibar. He received the Nobel Prize in 2021.