Afterlives is a powerful book. While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. Years later he returns to his village to find his family gone.
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Afterlives is a powerful book. While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. Years later he returns to his village to find his family gone.