The Seers
Will be published approx. on 4. May 2023
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-83885-569-7 (ISBN)
Description
?We were travellers, like many before us, who had to go far to find a moment of peace to anchor our own tent in our true selves'
Hannah flees war in her home country of Eritrea to arrive in the UK with only fragments of her previous life, including her dead mother's diary which contains a disturbing secret. Now she must contend with the UK asylum system, the legacy of colonialism on her mental health and her own passionate encounters with fellow refugees.
Hannah flees war in her home country of Eritrea to arrive in the UK with only fragments of her previous life, including her dead mother's diary which contains a disturbing secret. Now she must contend with the UK asylum system, the legacy of colonialism on her mental health and her own passionate encounters with fellow refugees.
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Person
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. Addonia currently lives in Brussels, where he founded a creative writing academy for refugees and asylum seekers and the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival In Exile (AALFIE). In 2021 he was awarded Belgium's Golden Afro Artistic Award for Literature.
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