Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.

At 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.

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.35w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780593852606


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2025 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 10/21/2024
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2025
Booklist 03/01/2025 pg. 54
BookPage 04/01/2025
Shelf Awareness 04/06/2025

About the Author
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Desertion. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. He lives in Canterbury, England.