Afterlives

 Time Magazine listed Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gumah as one of the 100 best books written in 2022. The Washington Post put it among the ten best books of 2022. I enjoyed this story set in Tanzania when it was run by the Germans in the first half of the 1900's. The Germans did not rule with kindness. The story  is told by four characters and covers several generations. One of the main characters is Ilya who joins the German army. The search for Ilya is a major theme in the story. Ilya's younger sister searches for him and eventually names her son after her missing brother. This is an excellent book. The author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature with his writing about colonialism in Africa.