![]() ![]() She is also the author of five novels: The Translator (1999) Minaret (2005), which tells the story of Najwa, an aristocratic Sudanese woman forced into exile in Britain Lyrics Alley (2010), set in 1950s Sudan and inspired by the life of her uncle - a poet and songwriter – The Kindness of Enemies (2015) and Bird Summons (2019).īBC Radio 4 broadcast a five-part adaptation of The Translator in 2002, and a dramatisation of 'The Museum'. A collection of short stories, Coloured Lights, was published in 2001, followed by a second, Elsewhere, Home, in 2018, which won the award for Saltire Society's Fiction Book of the Year 2018. ![]() ![]() She has had several short stories published in anthologies and broadcast on radio, and one of her short stories, ‘The Museum’, won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000. She worked as a part-time Research Assistant while starting to write. She studied for a degree in Economics at Khartoum University, then moved to England to obtain a Masters degree in Statistics at the London School of Economics. Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 in Cairo and grew up in Khartoum. ![]()
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![]() That posture is, in my view, the core of a serious social disorder.”įools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left And all institutions that grant protection to that class or a voice in the political process will be targets for his destructive rage. He will set about destroying the enemy, whom he will conceive in collective terms, as the class, group or race that hitherto controlled the world and which must now in turn be controlled. He will set himself against all forms of mediation, compromise and debate, and against the legal and moral norms that give a voice to the dissenter and sovereignty to the ordinary person. Such a person does not seek to negotiate within existing structures, but to gain total power, so as to abolish the structures themselves. In such cases resentment ceases to be a response to another’s unmerited success and becomes instead an existential posture: the posture of the one whom the world has betrayed. That, it seems to me, is what happens when left-wing movements take over. ![]() ![]() This happens when resentment loses the specificity of its target, and becomes directed to society as a whole. “However, resentment can be transformed into a governing emotion and a social cause, and thereby gain release from the constraints that normally contain it. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek-the man she never thought she’d have to live without.įor six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books-medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her-Percy and Sam had been inseparable. ![]() Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. ![]() They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. ![]() |