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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
153 kr
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
197 kr
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It is summer in Jeddah but Naser's life seems bleak. An immigrant in an unfriendly land, his friends have fled town for cooler climes and left him to his dead-end job and the scrutiny of the religious police, who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. He spends his time writing to his mother in Africa and yearning to meet a woman - but in a country that separates men and women with walls and veils he feels increasingly trapped. Then, one of the black-clad women drops a piece of paper at his feet, instructing him to follow her pink shoes and suddenly his black-and-white life blooms into colour.But relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the strict Wahhibism of Saudi state rule - and it's not long before their forbidden love must face the hardest test of all...
E-bok
Engelska, 2008100 kr
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It is summer in Jeddah but Naser's life seems bleak. An immigrant in an unfriendly land, his friends have fled town for cooler climes and left him to his dead-end job and the scrutiny of the religious police, who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. He spends his time writing to his mother in Africa and yearning to meet a woman - but in a country that separates men and women with walls and veils he feels increasingly trapped. Then, one of the black-clad women drops a piece of paper at his feet, instructing him to follow her pink shoes and suddenly his black-and-white life blooms into colour.But relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the strict Wahhibism of Saudi state rule - and it's not long before their forbidden love must face the hardest test of all...
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2011138 kr
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Under the hot sun, the Jeddah streets resemble a scene from an old black-and-white movie: the women dressed like long, dark shadows and the men in their light cotton tunics. Naser''s friends have all left town for cooler climes but he can''t get away: he''s an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash. During his time off, he sits beneath his favourite palm tree, writing to his mother in Africa and yearning for the glamorous Egyptian actress he hopes to meet one day. It''s hard to adjust to a world that puts up so many barriers between men and women: walls in the mosque, divider panels in the buses and veils on the street. Naser feels increasingly trapped, not least by the religious police who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. A splash of colour arrives in Naser''s world when, unexpectedly, a small piece of paper is dropped at his feet. It is a love note, from a woman whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. She tells him that she will wear a pair of pink shoes the next time she passes so that he can pick her out from the other women in their identical black abayas. Erotic tension runs high; Naser and his ''habibati'' begin to exchange letters. But in moments of doubt the pink shoes seem to lead him into a cul-de-sac of thwarted desire, fraught with danger. Relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the strict Wahhibism of Saudi state rule - and it''s not long before their real, but illicit, love must face the hardest test of all...
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
272 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2025287 kr
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With echoes of Zora Neale Hurston and Clarice Lispector, Sulaiman Addonia turns from the broader immigration narrative of land and nations to look closely at the erotic and intimate lives of asylum seekers.Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, The Seers chronicles the first weeks of a young Eritrean refugee in London. As Hannah grapples with her own agency in a strange country, her sexual encounters become an unapologetic expression of self—a defiant cry against the endless bureaucracy of immigration.In a single, gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between past and present to paint a surreal and sensual portrait of a life being burned up in search of refuge. For Hannah, caught between worlds in the UK asylum system, the West is both savior and abuser, seeking always to shape her, but never succeeding in suppressing her voice.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
161 kr
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Longlisted: RSL Ondaatje Prize 2025The Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the realities of the UK asylum system and its impact on young refugees.
E-bok
Tyska, 2021168 kr
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Saba ist eine Kämpferin. Als sie als junges Mädchen mit ihrem stummen Zwillingsbruder Hagos und ihrer Mutter in einem ostafrikanischen Flüchtlingslager ankommt, hat die Familie alles verloren und muss in dieser fremden, überfüllten und oft feindlichen Umgebung eine neue Existenz aufbauen.Sie setzt alles daran, ihr Selbstwertgefühl zu behalten und Hagos zu beschützen. Die Geschwister lassen sich nicht in die Rollen pressen, die ihnen über ihr Geschlecht gesellschaftlich zugewiesen sind. Die gegenseitige Kontrolle im Lager ist groß und alle kämpfen um Vorteile, aber die Menschen haben Träume und Fantasien und Pläne für die Zukunft. Sie leben und erfinden Geschichten."Schweigen ist meine Muttersprache" ist das kunstvoll entworfene Porträt einer mutigen jungen Frau, die mit Vorverurteilungen zu kämpfen hat und für ihr großes Ziel, wieder zur Schule zu gehen und zu studieren, einiges auf sich nimmt. Mit der Erinnerung an seine eigenen Erfahrungen in Flüchtlingslagern, erzählt Sulaiman Addonia eine poetische Geschichte über Flucht und Überleben, über Traurigkeit und Verlust und die Kraft der Fantasie, die Hoffnung verleiht und Weiterleben ermöglicht.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2025
271 kr
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E-bok
Tyska, 2025203 kr
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Ein literarischer Rausch – der neue Roman von Sulaiman AddoniaDas mutige Ausloten eines Lebens am Rande der Gesellschaft und die Bedeutung von SexualitätWie in einem literarischen Rausch erzählt Sulaiman Addonia die Geschichte von Hannah, einer minderjährigen eritreischen Geflüchteten, und ihrer ersten Zeit in London. Während sie in einem fremden Land mit ihrer eigenen Handlungsunfähigkeit ringt, werden sexuelle Begegnungen zu einem unmissverständlichen Ausdruck ihres Seins – ein trotziger Aufschrei gegen die endlose Bürokratie der Einwanderung. Eindimensionalen Erzählungen über Flucht, Trauma und einem Leben am Rande der Gesellschaft setzt Addonia eine unkonventionelle, vielschichtige Protagonistin entgegen, die ihren Platz in der Welt sucht.»Die Sehenden« ist ein mutiger, eindringlicher Roman, der Psyche und Sexualität seiner Figuren auf unvergleichliche Weise entschlüsselt. Eine Geschichte über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, generationsübergreifende Lebenserfahrungen, koloniale Traumata und das reale Gesicht der europäischen Einwanderungspolitik sowie ihre Auswirkungen auf Zufluchtssuchende»In Die Sehenden nimmt uns Sulaiman Addonia mit in eine ebenso bezaubernde wie raue Welt, in der sich Sehnsüchte und Erinnerungen überschneiden. Wie fesselnd und elegant und ergreifend und witzig und voller Vitalität! Und was für eine Fülle von Bildern! Absolute Weltklasse.« Peter Verhelst»Es gibt viele Gründe, warum nur wenige Schriftsteller*innen mit meinem Hintergrund den Durchbruch schaffen. … Ich habe Jahre gebraucht, um Selbstvertrauen zu gewinnen, die Narben und Wunder meines Daseins als junger Geflüchteter zu erkennen und die Kraft zu finden, mich zu melden und zu sagen: ›Ich bin gut genug, um ein Schriftsteller zu sein.‹« Sulaiman Addonia, 2024