Silence of the choir / Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar, 1990- author.

Contributor:

Anderson, Alison, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Silence du choeur. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Libya--Fiction.

Refugees.

Racism--Italy--Fiction.

Racism.

Xenophobia--Italy--Fiction.

Xenophobia.

Nationalism--Italy--Fiction.

Nationalism.

Senegalese fiction (French).

Italy--Politics and government--Fiction.

Italy.

Sicily (Italy)--Fiction.

Sicily (Italy).

Genre:

Novels.

Social problem fiction.

Physical Description:

391 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2024.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Summary:

"Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ragazzi, the "guys" that the Santa Marta Association have taken responsibility for. In this small Sicilian town, their arrival changes life for everybody. While they wait to know their fate, the ragazzi encounter all kinds of people: a strange vicar who rewrites their pasts, a woman committed to ensuring them asylum, a man determined to fight against it, an older ragazzo who has become an interpreter, and a reclusive poet who no longer writes. Each character in this moving and important saga is forced to reflect on what it means to encounter people they know nothing about. They watch as a situation unfolds over which they have little control or insight. A story told through a growing symphony of voices that ends only when one final voice brings silence to the choir."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9798889660200

OCLC:

1398210672

Publisher Number:

99996238065