Description Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.
She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland..
Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.
Her novels include The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Minaret and Lyrics Alley, which was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards.
About the author LEILA Aboulela is the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
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.
A woman experiences an evolving relationship to her favorite writer, whose portrait of their shared culture both reflects and conflicts with her own sense of identity.
A wealthy young Sudanese woman studying in Aberdeen begins an unlikely friendship with one of her Scottish classmates.
A young woman\'s encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum.
Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at Home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones.
Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life.
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Description Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J
