Silence is My Mother Tongue

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In a time of war, what is the shape of love? Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school and forced to abandon her books as her family flees to safety. In this unfamiliar, crowded and often hostile community, she must carve out a new existence. As she struggles to maintain her sense of self, she remains fiercely protective of her mute brother, Hagos – each sibling resisting the roles gender and society assign.Through a cast of complex, beautifully-drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia questions what it means to be a man, to be a woman, to be an individual when circumstance has forced the loss of all that makes a home or a future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-28
Mått:129 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt:206 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:The Indigo Press
ISBN:9781911648062
Utmärkelser:Nominated for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2019 (UK)

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Sulaiman Addonia is a novelist who fled Eritrea as a refugee in childhood. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.The Consequences of Love was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was translated into more than 20 languages. Sulaiman Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he has launched a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers. Silence is My Mother Tongue is his second novel.

Recensioner i media

‘Silence is My Mother Tongue offers a bold and at times shocking insight into what life can be like living in a refugee camp . . . the way in which Addonia has created these characters and ties them together to create this uncertain world in which they live in makes this a compelling read’https://lovelondonloveculture.com/2018/10/06/review-silence-is-my-mother-tongue-by-sulaiman-addonia/