An enchanting narrative of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. Leila Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice. Through the voices of seven men and women whose fates grow inextricably linked, illuminating a fraught and bloody reckoning with the history of a people caught in the crosshairs of imperialism.
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