{"title":"Books by Sulaiman Addonia","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781911648062","title":"Silence Is My Mother Tongue","description":"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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43406084636850,"sku":"9781911648062","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911648062_16378cd1-6990-4eba-9a7f-9d6799c3886c.jpg?v=1786029764"},{"product_id":"9781913513511","title":"The Seers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted: RSL Ondaatje Prize 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Seers\u003c\/em\u003e follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, \u003cem\u003eThe Seers\u003c\/em\u003e moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the realities of the UK asylum system and its impact on young refugees.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581183127730,"sku":"9781913513511","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913513511_d3d08ffe-5f33-4a73-a5d1-12510ab80a0a.jpg?v=1786030467"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sulaiman-addonia.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}