Ebook {Epub PDF} Elsewhere Home by Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela was born in Cairo, grew up in Khartoum and moved in her mid-twenties to Aberdeen. She is the author of five novels, Bird Summons, The Translator, a New York Times Notable Books of the Year, The Kindness of Enemies, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Leila was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and her latest story collection, .  · If literary realism attempts to hold a mirror to the world, then Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere, Home is an especially vivid reflection in a pond, as accurate as glass's gaze but rippled to capture life as a thing shivering and fluid even when seemingly still One marvels at a sort of uniformity in this quiet collection that transcends theme, setting, subject. Critics sometimes speak of writers as having "found Brand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.  · Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela is published by Telegram (£). To order a copy for £ go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders www.doorway.ru: Arifa Akbar.

In her new collection of stories, award-winning New York Times Notable author Leila Aboulela offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, 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. 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. 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 [ ]. Leila Aboulela was born in Cairo, grew up in Khartoum and moved in her mid-twenties to Aberdeen. She is the author of five novels, Bird Summons, The Translator, a New York Times Notable Books of the Year, The Kindness of Enemies, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book www.doorway.ru was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and her latest story.

Aboulela's remarkable collection offers a strong and sympathetic illumination of the social and spiritual price that migration demands even when it does deliver on an economic promise. A.L. Kennedy Elsewhere, Home is a rich and poignant reflection of a Britain built as ever from multiple perspectives and starting points These beautifully focused tales of Khartoum, Edinburgh, London, Cairo and beyond are a delight. Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela is published by Telegram (£). To order a copy for £ go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only. If literary realism attempts to hold a mirror to the world, then Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere, Home is an especially vivid reflection in a pond, as accurate as glass's gaze but rippled to capture life as a thing shivering and fluid even when seemingly still One marvels at a sort of uniformity in this quiet collection that transcends theme, setting, subject. Critics sometimes speak of writers as having "found their voices," but this book is a testament to one who's always had hers.