Sulaiman Addonia

Broschiertes Buch

The Seers

Beschreibung

"In the squares of Bloomsbury, near an orphanage in Kilburn, a young Eritrean refugee named Hannah grapples with a disturbing sexual story in her mother's diary. As Hannah moves through the UK asylum system haunted by this tale, language becomes a tool of survival and time becomes a placid lake in which the Home Office drowns her"--

Autor

Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. He spent his early life in a refugee camp and went on to earn an MA from the University of London. His first novel, The Consequences of Love (Chatto & Windus, 2008), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and translated into more than 20 languages. His second novel, Silence Is My Mother Tongue (Indigo Press, 2019; Graywolf Press, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 154g
• ISBN-13: 9781566897211
• ISBN-10: 1566897211
• Artikelnr.: 71262738