G95 Posthumous : [novel] / Gurna Abdulrazak; [translated from English by Y. Poleshchuk]. — Moscow : Strok, 2022. — 352 pages. — (Big Prose series). Shortly before World War I, fate brings the main characters together on the East African coast. Hamza and Ilyas serve alongside German soldiers — and return home. Afia is under the care of a strict family where she is persecuted for knowing how to read. The paths of the young people intersect as they try to build an ordinary life, but the shadow of the impending war threatens to destroy the fragile peace. Meaningless hatred and complicated relationships between oppressors and oppressed, deep love, cruelty, and the consequences of colonial policies — in the new novel by the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. "Posthumous" has received wide recognition for its portrayal of the little-studied topic of Africans abducted to fight for Europe. Published in Russian for the first time. UDC 821.111 BBK 84