• Imprint: Telegram
• ISBN: 9781846592119
• Published: July 2018
• UK Price: £8.99
• Binding: Paperback
• Extent: 224pp

‘A lovely collection of short stories about love, loneliness and spirituality’ Nadiya Hussain, Good Housekeeping

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2018

Longlisted for the People’s Book Prize 2018

From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad.

A young woman’s encounter with a former classmate elicits painful reminders of her former life in Khartoum. A wealthy Sudanese student in Aberdeen begins an unlikely friendship with a Scottish man. A woman experiences an evolving relationship to her favourite writer, whose portrait of their shared culture both reflects and conflicts with her own sense of identity.

Shuttling between the dusty, sun-baked streets of Khartoum and the university halls and cramped apartments of Aberdeen and London, Elsewhere, Home explores, with subtlety and restraint, the profound feelings of yearning, loss and alienation that come with leaving one’s homeland in pursuit of a different life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leila Aboulela is an award-winning novelist and playwright. Her novels, which were all longlisted for the Orange Prize, include The Translator (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Minaret and Lyrics Alley. Lyrics Alley was also Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Translated into fourteen languages, Aboulela’s work has received a high profile for its distinctive exploration of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. Aboulela grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and now lives in Aberdeen.

REVIEWS

‘A beautiful and desolate collection … quiet brilliance.’The Observer

‘Thoughtful, wry, funny … The deceptively quiet tales in Elsewhere, Homeare barbed with tension and conflict. There is the desperate homesickness of immigrants; the complications of love between believers and non-believers …' The Herald

‘A rich and poignant reflection of a Britain built as ever from multiple perspectives and starting points. Fragile, curious, human voices blend, lose themselves, redefine themselves. These beautifully focused tales are a delight.' A.L. Kennedy 

‘Exquisite fiction. There are gems here, elegantly cut, polished and framed. Luminous.’ Fadia Faqir 

‘Full of elegance, tenderness and the small vulnerabilities that make up our lives’ Roma Tearne