The Translator
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The Translator is Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela first novel, published in 1999. It is a story about a young Muslim Sudanese widow living in Scotland without her son, and her blooming relationship with a secular Scottish Middle Eastern scholar. It focuses on issues of faith, cross-cultural romance, and the modernisation of Sudan.
Quotes
[edit]- Her invisible mark shifted, breathed its existence.
- Narrator (chapter 1)
- She had not been in a real home for a long time.
- Narrator (chapter 2)
