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Sulaiman S. M. Y. Addonia

    Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia is an author whose work delves into the complexities of identity and displacement, often drawing from personal experience. His prose is known for its evocative power, transporting readers to the heart of challenging human circumstances. Through his narratives, Addonia explores themes of belonging, resilience, and the search for home in a fragmented world. His unique perspective offers profound insights into the immigrant experience.

    La conseguenza dell'amore
    Gli amanti del Mar Rosso
    Die Liebenden von Dschidda
    The Seers
    Addis Ababa Noir
    Silence Is My Mother Tongue
    • Silence Is My Mother Tongue

      • 208 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      4,0(161)Ohodnotit

      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 Tongue dissects 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
    • Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't.

      Addis Ababa Noir
    • The Seers tells the story of an Eritrean refugee in London, moving between past and present to explore intergenerational histories and the UK asylum system. The novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as land and nations.

      The Seers
    • Er hat ihr Gesicht nie gesehen und ihre Stimme nie gehört - und doch liebt er sie mehr als sein Leben. Fiore liebt Naser, und Naser liebt Fiore. Verbotenerweise. Denn Fiore trägt den Schleier, und Naser ist fremd in der saudiarabischen Metropole Dschidda. Pinkfarbene Schuhe werden zum geheimen Erkennungszeichen und ein blinder Imam zum unwissentlichen Boten ihrer Liebe. Doch überall lauern die tausend Augen der Religionspolizei. Als Flüchtling aus Eritrea hat es Naser nicht leicht in Saudi-Arabien. Ständig lebt er in der Angst, ausgewiesen zu werden. Er muss allen zu Diensten sein: seinem Bürgen ebenso wie den unverheirateten Männern im Café, die ein Auge auf ihn geworfen haben. Doch dann erreicht ihn eine Botschaft, die sein Leben verändert. Auf einem Zettel, scheinbar achtlos fallen gelassen, offenbart ihm eine junge Frau ihre Zuneigung. Zwischen den beiden entbrennt eine Liebe, die im strengen System der Geschlechtertrennung keine Chance hat. Um sich zu sehen oder auch nur zu sprechen, beginnt eine verzweifelte Suche nach Schlupflöchern. Schon bald ist der Plan für eine Flucht gefasst.„Zu Herzen gehend!“ Literary Review

      Die Liebenden von Dschidda
    • Gli amanti del Mar Rosso

      La conseguenza dell'amore

      • 373 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Nelle strade di Jeddah, in Arabia Saudita, le donne, completamente velate, appaiono come macchie scure nella luce accecante. Ma un giorno una di loro fa cadere ai piedi di Naser, romantico ragazzo venuto dall'Africa, un bigliettino. È una dichiarazione d'amore, con la promessa di ritornare indossando delle scarpette rosa per farsi riconoscere. Nasce così, clandestinamente, la rovente passione fra Naser e Fiore, la donna misteriosa. Una relazione proibita, impossibile, che ben presto porterà i due giovani amanti ad affrontare la prova più dura e straziante...

      Gli amanti del Mar Rosso