North Africa
Sudan
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Sammar, a Sudanese woman working as a translator in Aberdeen after the death of her husband, falls in love with a Scottish academic studying Islamic politics. A quiet, luminous novel about faith and belonging.
Literary Significance
Caine Prize shortlist; Aboulela's debut; one of the only novels to portray Muslim womanhood in exile with full sympathy
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editorial-summarynot primary textSammar, a Sudanese woman working as a translator in Aberdeen after the death of her husband, falls in love with a Scottish academic studying Islamic politics. A quiet, luminous novel about faith and belonging. Caine Prize shortlist; Aboulela's debut; one of the only novels to portray Muslim womanhood in exile with full sympathy
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