NP but a book recommendation. Maybe esp for Joseph who was recently asking. Afterlives by the new Nobelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah, just received (from England!)

[Mark Kohut]

https://twitter.com/MarkKohut/status/1451483614198308867/photo/1

A moslem community finds work for a bright boy [from Zanzibar implicitly]
that leads to
 a job on mainland Africa. As the Germans break the various resistances and
steadily consolidate their colonization-- presented
as a fact of life while a powerful businessman takes over the lives of
many--the man our protagonist
works for.....I detect a fierce internal metaphor for that colonization.

Barely begun, fyi.