A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive,Silence Is My Mother Tonguedissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.

Silence Is My Mother Tongue: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Addonia, Sulaiman

Literary

Graywolf Press

Silence is My Mother Tongue

The Indigo Press

En un mundo donde el amor es un sueno imposible... El joven Naser suena con enamorarse de una muchacha de su edad, un riesgo considerable en Arabia Saudi, un pais dondelas relaciones entre un hombre y una mujer solteros estan terminantemente prohibidas y severamente castigadas.Un dia, mientras descansa bajo la sombra de su arbol favorito, una desconocida deja a sus pies una nota perfumada. La joven huye corriendo y el solo consigue ver sus zapatos, de un rosa intense«A veces, las cartas son lo unico que les queda a los amantes».A partir de entonces, tanto Fiore como Naser viven unicamente para intercambiarse cartas de amor. Su pasion les arrastra hasta el punto de poner en peligro sus vidas.«La vida es hermosa. No te rindas».

Las consecuencias del amor

Genre Fiction

Espasa

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