Yup. :D Looking forward to it. I haven't read anything set there before, and Aboulela is a local of Khartoum, too.

Well, depending on your reading experience, I just may have found my "Sudan" book for "Around the World" then ...

I'll keep you posted. ;) What other options have you lined up?

"Season of Migration to the North" by Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ, "The White Nile" by Alan Moorehead, and / or a multi-author anthology called "Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope." All of which I'm simultaneously interested in and not feeling much like reading at the moment, if that makes sense.

Makes perfect sense.

And yeah, the first two went straight to my TBR.

:D

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