Salutation Road

Salutation Road by Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told, speculative literary debut about the everyday struggles of immigration, love and letting go of a past that never really existed. For fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid.

Twenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, she does her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London. But she can't help but wonder if this is the life she really wants.

Until one morning, when she boards the bus to work in Greenwich, she finds herself transported to an alternate reality in present-day Mogadishu. There she encounters her double, Ubah - the woman she could have been had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War. And what follows will change both of their lives for ever . . .

About the author

Salma Ibrahim

Product details

• Authors: Salma Ibrahim
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.09.2026
• EAN: 9781035044368
• ISBN: 978-1-0350-4436-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Somalia, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Central London, FICTION / Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, FICTION / World Literature / England / 21st Century, FICTION / Own Voices, FICTION / Muslim, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages