Contemporary fiction books from Eritrea
Recommended contemporary fiction books (1)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from Eritrea for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Silence Is My Mother Tongue : A Novel by Sulaiman Addonia EN
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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 inabilit... continue