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?We were travellers, like many before us, who had to go far to find a moment of peace to anchor our own tent in our true selves'Hannah flees war in her home country of Eritrea to arrive in the UK with only fragments of her previous life, including her dead mother's diary which contains a disturbing secret. Now she must contend with the UK asylum system, the legacy of colonialism on her mental health and her own passionate encounters with fello...

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 Hoff...

Editor Maaza Mengiste's debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was published by Norton and was selected as a best book by several publications, including the Guardian and the Boston Globe. The novel was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award.Mengiste's new novel, The Shadow King, will be published by Norton in September 2019. The book is hotly anticipated and has appeared on many "Most Anticipated N...

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. A splash of colour arrives in Naser's world when, unexpectedly, a love note is dropped at his feet from a woman whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. Erotic tension runs high but relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the and it's not lo...

A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionOn 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,...

Editor Maaza Mengiste's debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was published by Norton and was selected as a best book by several publications, including the Guardian and the Boston Globe. The novel was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award.Mengiste's new novel, The Shadow King, will be published by Norton in September 2019. The book is hotly anticipated and has appeared on many "Most Anticipated N...

The powerful bond forged in the refugee camp is presented in this novel of love, judgement and sacrifice.

The powerful bond forged in the refugee camp is presented in this novel of love, judgement and sacrifice.