{"id":10475,"date":"2024-01-07T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2024-01-07T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T13:51:22","slug":"elsewhere-home-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/elsewhere-home-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsewhere, Home: Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her new collection of stories, award-winning\u00a0New York Times\u00a0Notable author Leila Aboulela offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, and the challenges of navigating assimilation and difference.<br \/>\nElsewhere, Home\u00a0draws us ineluctably into the lives of her characters as they forge new identities and reshape old ones.<br \/>\nA young woman&#8217;s encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum.<br \/>\nA wealthy Sudanese student studying in Aberdeen begins an unlikely friendship with a Scottish man.<br \/>\nA 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.<\/p>\n<p>Shuttling between the dusty, sunbaked streets of Khartoum and the university halls and cramped apartments of Aberdeen and London,\u00a0Elsewhere, Home\u00a0explores, with subtlety and restraint, the profound feelings of yearning, loss, and alienation that come with leaving one&#8217;s homeland in pursuit of a different life.<\/p>\n<p>Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.<br \/>\nNominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction), she is the author of numerous novels, including\u00a0The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator,\u00a0Minaret\u00a0and\u00a0Lyrics Alley, which was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.<br \/>\nShe grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events In her new collection of stories, award-winning\u00a0New York Times\u00a0Notable author Leila Aboulela offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, and the challenges of navigating assimilation and difference. Elsewhere, Home\u00a0draws us ineluctably into the lives of her characters as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10482,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions\/10482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}