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Leila Aboulela

The Translator

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The Translator is a story about love, both human and divine.
Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husband and estrangement from her young son, she drifts — grieving and isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds herself falling in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. To Sammar, he seems to come from another world and another culture, yet they are drawn to each other.
'Aboulela is a wonderfully poetic writer… It is a pleasure to read a novel so full of feeling and yet  so serene' – The Guardian
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223 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
Publisher
Polygon

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    ‘Because no one will take him seriously after that. What would he be? Another ex-hippy gone off to join some weird cult. Worse than a weird cult, the religion of terrorists and fanatics. That’s how it would be seen. He’s got enough critics as it is: those who think he is too liberal, those who would even accuse him of being a traitor just by telling the truth about another culture.’

    ‘A traitor to what?’

    ‘To the West. You know, the idea that West is best.’
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      Sammar did not like the word orientalist. Orientalists were bad people who distorted the image of the Arabs and Islam. Something from school history or literature, she could not remember. Maybe modern orientalists were different
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        ‘Rae is different,’ Sammar said. Her voice made it sound like a question.

        ‘In what way?’

        ‘He’s sort of familiar, like people from back home.’

        ‘He’s an orientalist. It’s an occupational hazard.’
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