Does the Nobel Prize winner's new novel deliver?

Theft is Abdulrazak Gurnah's first book after winning the Nobel Prize in 2021 for "having uncompromisingly and with great compassion examined the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees in the gap between cultures and continents." The academic and author, who was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and then came to England as a refugee in 1968, has written a number of novels set in East Africa. With great narrative power, he draws human destinies i…