Bird Summons
From the winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2025
$27.11
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2020
Summary
- A Guardian Best Book of 2019 *
- Shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019 *
- Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 *
‘Bird Summons is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild’ Lucy Ellmann, Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport
Salma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474600934 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 147460093X |
| Author: | Leila Aboulela |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Tender, but unsentimental … rooted in everyday experience without forsaking the spiritual … told in effortlessly enjoyable style - DAILY MAIL
Aboulela is doing much the same thing as Jane Austen did when she brought her heroines to the point of examining their feelings honestly … a very good novel - SCOTSMANBIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild BIRD SUMMONS is a Scottish-Arabic Canterbury Tales, a quest full of stories and surprises: a challenging storyteller’s tour de force, uniting two radically different cultures with a handshake and a kissAboulela’s is a unique and refreshing voice in contemporary Scottish fictionAbout The Author
Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela was born in Cairo and grew up in Khartoum. She is the author of four novels: The Translator, Minaret, Lyrics Alley, and The Kindness of Enemies. Lyrics Alley won Novel of the Year at the Scottish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, while Aboulela’s collection of short fiction, Coloured Lights, won the Caine Prize. She lives in Aberdeen.
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