A mouth full of salt / Reem Gaafar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaafar, Reem, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villages--Fiction.

Villages.

Communities--Fiction.

Communities.

Fiction--21st century.

Fiction.

Sudan--Social conditions--Fiction.

Sudan.

Physical Description:

247 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Saqi Books, 2024.

Summary:

A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. Is is the dry season. The men have places to go, the women have work to do, the children play at the place where the river runs over its own banks. Sixteen-year-old Fatima yearns to leave the village for Khartoum. In Khartoum, a singe mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village.

ISBN:

9780863567728

086356772X

OCLC:

1422224979