01725nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200180009510000300011324500100014326000400015330000280019336500520022152009750027365000280124865000500127694200120132699900190133895201380135720260304092620.0260303b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781526678645  cAL  aEnglish  a823.914bGURT  aAbdulrazak Gurnah9257596  aTheft  aLondonbBloomsbury Publishingc2025  a246p.bPBc23.5x15.5cm.  aIN-39312b₹471.03c₹d₹724.00f14-01-2026  a**Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, Financial Times, Granta, Economist and the BBC**
**Selected as a book of the year 2025 by the Financial Times and Time Magazine**
It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation. But for Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents, it seems as if all doors are closed.

Brought into a lowly position in a great house in Dar es Salaam, Badar finds the first true home of his life – and the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house. Even when a shattering false accusation sees Badar sent away, Karim and Fauzia refuse to turn away from their friend.
But as the three of them take their first steps in love, infatuation, work and parenthood, their bond is tested – and Karim is tempted into a betrayal that will change all of their lives forever.
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