6/11/2023 0 Comments Minaret leila aboulela summaryYet in a climatic event, Sammar leaves Aberdeen and goes back to Khartoum with her son, mother-in-law and other family members. Her relationship with Rae is close and gets even closer as Christmas approaches. Through Sammar’s daily interaction and schedule, the readers get to know her story: a tragic accident that made her leave her son in Sudan and follow this silent life. Rae is a professor and the Arab expert of the university, albeit he is not Muslim himself. She follows a silent, lonely and observant life where her only interactions include those with her work friend and her boss, Rae. It is a short and powerful novel about Sammar, a Sudanese woman living in Aberdeen, Scotland, working as an Arab translator for the university. While searching for Sudanese and African women authors, Leila Aboulela’s “The Translator” appeared in many lists of recommendations, so I decided to give it a try.
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