Bücher von Leila Aboulela

"A spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan. The latest novel by "versatile prose stylist" (New York Times) Leila Aboulela is an enchanting story of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who-against the odds and for a brief time-gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice. When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they're taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power-the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam-Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side. A scholar of the Qur'an, Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, even as his choice splinters his family. Meanwhile, Akuany moves through her young adulthood and across the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with Yaseen as her inconsistent lifeline. Everything each of them is striving for-love, freedom, safety-is all on the line in the fight for Sudan. Through the voices of seven men and women whose fates grow inextricably linked, Aboulela's latest novel illuminates the fraught and bloody history of a people caught in the crosshairs of imperialism. River Spirit is a powerful tale of corruption, coming of age, and unshakeable devotion-to a cause, to one's faith, and to the people who become family"--

Nadia merkt in den Ferien in Kairo, wie fremd ihr die Heimat ihrer Mutter geworden ist. Ein zum Islam konvertierter Schotte fliegt nach Khartum, um seine Braut zu heiraten. Als ihr Vater plotzlich stirbt, wird er mit den fremden Riten konfrontiert, die ihm mehr zu schaffen machen, als er geglaubt hatte. Farida muss sich gegen ihren strengen Vater durchsetzen, um in der Schule eine Brille tragen zu durfen. Schadia, eine Studentin aus einer wohlhabenden sudanesischen Familie, freundet sich in Grobritannien gegen alle Hindernisse mit einem schottischen Kommilitonen aus einer Arbeiterfamilie an. Leila Aboulela verschrnkt geschickt die Lebenswirklichkeiten in gypten, im Sudan und in Grobritannien miteinander. Ihre Figuren knnen im "e;Anderswo"e; nicht wirklich zu Hause sein, aber die "e;Heimat"e; ihres Herkunftslandes erscheint ihnen aufgrund ihrer Migrationserfahrungen ebenso fremd. Aboulela erzhlt ohne Pathos, dafr mit feinem Wortwitz und einem genauen Blick fr die Sehnschte der Aus- und Eingewanderten.

An enchanting, deeply-felt portrait of three women searching for freedom, from the three-times Orange Prize longlisted, Scottish Book Award and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela.