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Longlisted: RSL Ondaatje Prize 2025

The Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.

Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the realities of the UK asylum system and its impact on young refugees.

Book details

• Full title: Seers
• Author: Sulaiman Addonia
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781913513511
• ID: 45137285
• Publisher: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
• Weight: 114 g
• Dimensions: 178 × 112 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. June 2024

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