Coloured Lights by Leila Aboulela

Coloured Lights by Leila Aboulela

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A collection of short stories from award-winning writer Leila Aboulela, which illuminates culture shock and spiritual struggle. Set in London, Scotland and Sudan, the stories are peopled with characters who feel themselves between cultures, unable to feel at home either in the West or in Africa.

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Coloured Lights by Leila Aboulela

Coloured Lights is the first collection of short stories from the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2000, and it includes the winning story The Museum.
LEILA ABOULELA was born in Cairo and grew up in Khartoum. She has written four other novels: The Translator, Minaret, and Lyrics Alley, all of which were longlisted for the Orange Prize, and The Kindness of Enemies. Lyrics Alley won Novel of the Year at the Scottish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She was awarded the Caine Prize for her short story The Museum, included in her collection Elsewhere, Home--winner of the Saltire Fiction Prize. She lives in Aberdeen.
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ISBN 13 9780748662982
ISBN 10 0748662987
Title Coloured Lights
Author Leila Aboulela
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Birlinn General
Year published 2001-05-29
Number of pages 160
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