Afterlives

by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Afterlives
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1526615878
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BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian 'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year _______________ While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away... _______________ 'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism in East Africa and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee 'In book after book, he guides us through seismic historic moments and devastating societal ruptures while gently outlining what it is that keeps those families, friendships and loving spaces intact, if not fully whole' Maaza Mengiste 'Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that reading it encapsulates the enchanting qualities of a love affair ... One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times

The Afterlives

by Thomas Pierce
The Afterlives
Author: Thomas Pierce
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698144945
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“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out). Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side. Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith, they confront the specter of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Funny, fiercely original, and gracefully moving, The Afterlives will haunt you. In a good way.

After Lives

by John Casey
After Lives
Author: John Casey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0199975035
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A fascinating exploration of ideas of life after death ranging from ancient times to the present and from religion and philosophy to literature and science.

Online Afterlives

by Davide Sisto
Online Afterlives
Author: Davide Sisto
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 026253939X
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How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status updates. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we can't avoid death; digital ghosts—electronic traces of the dead—appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death. Sisto describes the various modes of digital survival after biological death—including Facebook tributes, chatbots programmed to speak in the voice of a dead person, and QR codes on headstones—and discusses their philosophical ramifications. Sisto reports on such phenomena as the Tweet Hereafter, a website that collects people's last tweets; the intimacy of sending a WhatsApp message to someone who has died; and digital cremation, the deactivation of a dead person's account. Because we can mingle with the dead online almost as we mingle with the living, he warns, we may find it difficult to distinguish communication at a distance from communication with the dead. The digital afterlife has restored the communal dimension of death, rescuing both mourners and the mourned from social isolation. A society willing to engage with death and mortality, Sisto argues, is a more balanced and mature society.

Sum

by David Eagleman
Sum
Author: David Eagleman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2009-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307378020
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At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.

By the Sea

by Abdulrazak Gurnah
By the Sea
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1526653400
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By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times 'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times _______________ On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protection. Meanwhile Latif Mahmud, someone intimately connected with Saleh's past, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When Saleh and Latif meet in an English seaside town, a story is unravelled. It is a story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.

Inventing Afterlives

by Regina M. Janes
Inventing Afterlives
Author: Regina M. Janes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018
Genre: RELIGION
ISBN: 9780231185714
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Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking what happens after we die we define the worlds we inhabit and the values by which we live.

After Lives

by Barbara Harlow
After Lives
Author: Barbara Harlow
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1996-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781859841808
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History holds many examples of political activists who have paid for their politics with their lives. From military suppressions to secretly engineered assassinations, the price of revolutionary politics is often dear, especially when the revolutionaries are writers, whose only offences against the state are their words. In a powerful study of three victims of political assassination, Barbara Harlow explores the intricate relations between politically engaged imaginative writing and participation in revolutionary struggles. Ghassan Kanafani in Palestine, Roque Dalton in El Salvador and Ruth First in South Africa laboured on behalf of social revolutions that none of them lived to see. In all three cases, the result of the armed conflict in which they were involved has been negotiated settlements with the enemy. After Lives explores the complex tensions that motivate and condition political writing, as well as its legacies to the movements in whose names it was undertaken. A product of political passion and engagement, but also an impressive work of scholarship, After Lives measures the costs and benefits that accrue to writers who put their lives and works on the line.

Afterlives

by E. Beth Allan
Afterlives
Author: E. Beth Allan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1300249684
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It's 2012 and the world is in the midst of a geopolitical meltdown. As earthquakes and floods threaten the land, solar flares and space junk threaten the sky. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains, Valhalla is one of the last strongholds of civilization in the USA.Except the city is divided. After the council built a Wall to keep refugees out, the inner districts fought for independence and the right to let them in.Meanwhile, one girl flees her safe suburban home in search of the people who will be partying till the very end - and finds true love along the way.Afterlives is the sequel to Afterhours, which was based around a nightclub in 2003. Back then, business was good and the parties were plenty; now the club is closed and almost 20 people call it home. What will become of the gang? Who will survive? And if they die, where, if anywhere, will they go?