River spirit : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION ABOU (CEN)
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
Physical Description
311 pages : map ; 22 cm
Summary
"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice"--
Subjects
- Belief and doubt > Fiction.
- Imperialism > Fiction.
- Enslaved persons > Fiction.
- Faith (Islam) > Fiction.
- Life change events > Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
- Merchants > Fiction.
- Muslims > Fiction.
- Orphans > Fiction.
- Prophets > Fiction.
- Violence > Fiction.
- Sudan > History > 1821-1881 > Fiction.
- Africa > History > Fiction.