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  • THE KINDNESS OF ENEMIES
    LEILA ABOULELA
    "A richly imagined novel about a half-Russian, half-Sudanese professor whose studies of a 19th-century Muslim leader become a portal into his world." — Travel + Leisure   It's 2010 and Natasha, a half-Russian, half-Sudanese professor of Islamic studies, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the nineteenth-century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucas...

    $229.00

  • LYRICS ALLEY
    LEILA ABOULELA
    From the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator: a novel of the "rich and complex world of a Sudanese patriarch in the 1950s" (Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress).   Lyrics Alley is the evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the shifting powers in their country and the near-tragedy that threatens the legacy they've built for decades.   ...

    $179.00

  • BIRD SUMMONS
    LEILA ABOULELA
    Three Muslim women search for freedom and happiness in the Scottish Highlands in this novel of "psychological acuity [and] rich characterization" ( Washington Post). When Salma, Moni, and Iman—friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group—decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustr...

    $229.00

  • THE TRANSLATOR
    LEILA ABOULELA
    A New York Times Notable Book: "Aboulela's lovely, brief story encompasses worlds of melancholy and gulfs between cultures" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with Minaret, a delicate tale of a privileged young African Muslim woman adjusting to her new life as a maid in London. Now, for the f...

    $149.00

  • MINARET
    LEILA ABOULELA
    "A beautiful, daring, challenging novel" of a young Muslim immigrant—from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator ( The Guardian).   Leila Aboulela's American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman—once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London—gradually embracing her orthodox faith.   W...

    $229.00