Adult Book Discussion: Theft

In November the Cupertino Library Adult Book Discussion Group will talk about the 2022 novel Theft by Nobel Prize winning author, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Karim and Badar are two young men living on the East African Island of Zanzibar. Karim’s mother Raya leaves her abusive older husband when Karim is three, taking her son with her. However when she finds a happy marriage with her new husband Haji Othman, Raya allows her parents to raise her son, instead. Years later when Karim is a University student living with his mother and stepfather for convenience, he meets and befriends the orphaned…