By Leila AboulelaNarrated by various narrators, Shiromi Arserio, Michael David Axtell, Nathan Hinton, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Robin Miles, Vaneh Assadourian
Length6h 17m
About this audiobook
In her new collection of stories, award-winning New York Times Notable author Leila Aboulela offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, and the challenges of navigating assimilation and difference. Elsewhere, Home draws us ineluctably into the lives of her characters as they forge new identities and reshape old ones.
A young woman’s encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum. A wealthy Sudanese student studying in Aberdeen begins an unlikely friendship with a Scottish man. A woman experiences an evolving relationship to her favorite writer, whose portrait of their shared culture both reflects and conflicts with her own sense of identity.
Shuttling between the dusty, sunbaked streets of Khartoum and the university halls and cramped apartments of Aberdeen and London, Elsewhere, Home explores, with subtlety and restraint, the profound feelings of yearning, loss, and alienation that come with leaving one’s homeland in pursuit of a different life.
Narrated byvarious narrators, Shiromi Arserio, Michael David Axtell, Nathan Hinton, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Robin Miles, Vaneh Assadourian
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1#1
8#8
2#2
9#9
3#3
10#10
4#4
11#11
5#5
12#12
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6#6
13#13
7#7
About the author
Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela is the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her many novels include The Translator, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and Home, which won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.View all by Leila Aboulela
