Coloured Lights - Brossura

Leila Aboulela

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1904598536 ISBN 13: 9781904598534

Casa editrice: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2005

Riassunto

All eleven stories illuminate the subtleties of Muslim immigrant experience in Britain: comic culture clash and deep spiritual struggles, from the title story, which tells of the tragic death of the narrator's brother; in another, romance is tentative in a Scottish kebab shop. One of the stories, 'The Museum', won the first Caine Prize for African Writing (2000). This reprint includes two new stories which did not appear in the first edition.

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Recensione:

A moving, gentle, ironic, quietly angry and beautifully written. --Ben Okri on 'The Museum'

Aboulela shows the rich possibilities of living in the West with different, non-Western ways of knowing and thinking. --The Sunday Herald

Leila Aboulela's writing is always beautifully observed, her voice one of restrained lyricism: she is a writer of rare and original talent. --Duncan McLean

L'autore:

Leila Aboulela was born in 1964, grew up in Khartoum and came to the UK to study at the London School of Economics. 'The Museum', a story from Coloured Lights, was the winner of the 2000 Caine Prize for African writing. Her second novel, 'Minaret', will be published by Bloomsbury in June 2005. Leila Aboulela divides her time between Djakarta and Aberdeen.

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• Editore: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904598536
• ISBN 13: 9781904598534
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 176