This lovely book took us just a little bit east of the border; but what a delightful journey!
SHORTLISTED FOR: 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2020 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD 2020 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD 2020 ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD An epic for an era of migrants, border-crossings, and traumatic conflicts, Beyond Babylon takes us deep into the lives of people swept up in history. Telling the engrossing stories of two half- sisters who meet coincidentally in Tunisia, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties them all together, Igiaba Scego’s virtuosic novel spreads thickly over Argentina’s horrific Dirty War, the chaotic final years of Siad Barre’s brutal dictatorship in Somalia—which ended in catastrophic civil war—and the modern-day excesses of Italy’s right-wing politics.
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