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The Seers

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By (author): Sulaiman Addonia

The Seers follows the first years of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone's story as 'land and nations' are. Hannah arrives in London with her mother's diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the realities of the UK asylum system and its impact on young refugees. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 112 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Jun 2024
  • Publisher: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913513511

About Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan and in his early teens he lived in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL. His first novel The Consequences of Love (Chatto & Windus 2008) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was translated into more than 20 languages. His second novel Silence is My Mother Tongue (Indigo Press 2019 Graywolf 2020) was a Finalist for Lambda Literary Awards 2021 Firecracker (CLMP) Awards the inaugural African Literary Award from The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco and longlisted for 2019 Orwell Prize for Fiction. Addonia's essays appear in LitHub Granta Freeman's New York Times De Standaard and Passa Porta. He is a contributor to Tales of Two Planets (Penguin 2020 edited by John Freeman) and Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Books 2020 edited by Maaza Mengiste). Sulaiman Addonia currently lives in Brussels where he founded the Creative Writing Academy for Refugees & Asylum Seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile (AALFIE) selected in 2022 as one of the top 40 literary festivals in the world. In 2021 he was awarded Belgium's Golden Afro Artistic Award for Literature and in 2022 he was elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Literature (RSL).

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