Silence is My Mother Tongue

In a time of war, what is the shape of love? Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school and forced to abandon her books as her family flees to safety. In this unfamiliar, crowded and often hostile space, she must carve out a new existence. As she struggles to maintain her sense of self, she remains fiercely protective of her mute brother, Hagos - each sibling resisting the roles gender and society assign. Through a cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia questions what it means to be a man, to be a woman, to be an individual when circumstance has forced the loss of all that makes a home or a future.

Summary

Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl. In this unfamiliar, crowded and often hostile community, she must carve out a new existence. As she struggles to maintain her sense of self, she remains fiercely protective of her mute brother, Hagos – each sibling resisting the roles gender and society assign.

Product details

• Authors: Sulaiman Addonia, Sulaiman (Writer) Addonia, Addonia Sulaiman
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781911648062
• ISBN: 978-1-911648-06-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 206 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, West Africa, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary