Elsewhere, Home

Leila Aboulela

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9781846592119
Published:
13 Jun 2018
Publisher:
Telegram Books
Dimensions:
224 pages - 198 x 129mm
Availability:
Available

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2018; Longlisted for The People's Book Prize 2018; From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere, Home offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, attempting to navigate the conflicts of assimilation and difference in an unfamiliar world. A young woman's encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum. A wealthy Sudanese student in Aberdeen begins an unlikely friendship with a Scottish man. A woman experiences an evolving relationship to her favourite writer, whose portrait of their shared culture both reflects and conflicts with her own sense of identity. Shuttling between the dusty, sun-baked streets of Khartoum and the university halls and cramped apartments of Aberdeen and London, Elsewhere, Home explores, with subtlety and restraint, the profound feelings of yearning, loss and alienation that come with leaving one's homeland in pursuit of a different life.
Short stories at their most moving and immediate; this new collection from prize-winning author Leila Aboulela spans twenty years of her work.
1. Summer Maze; 2. Something Old, Something New; 3. Farida's Eyes; 4. Souvenirs; 5. The Ostrich; 6. Majed; 7. The Boy from the Kebab Shop; 8. Expecting to Give; 9. The Aromatherapist's Husband; 10. Coloured Lights; 11. The Museum; 12. The Circle Line; 13. Pages of Fruit
Leila Aboulela is an award-winning novelist and playwright. Her novels, which were all longlisted for the Orange Prize, include The Translator (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Minaret and Lyrics Alley. Lyrics Alley was also Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Translated into fourteen languages, Aboulela's work has received a high profile for its distinctive exploration of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. Aboulela grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen.
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