De vertaalster leila aboulela biography

“A story of love and faith all the more moving for the restraint with which it is written.”
– J. M. Coetzee

“The Translator is un utter joy to read; a novel to savour and treasure.”
– Anne Donovan

“The difficult journey from sun to snow, from friends to strangers, is a central part of this gentle and melancholy novel.

..Aboulela is a wonderfully poetic writer. . .

De vertaalster leila aboulela biography

. It is a pleasure to read a novel so full of feeling and yet so serene.”
– Carrie O’Grady, The Guardian

“Aboulela has an unmistakable style, full of poetry and very moving. The Translator is an enveloping story of the tentative possibilities between a man and a woman, and between faiths; two people, and perhaps peoples, between nations.

It is an apt, resonant caution filled with love and poignant understanding of the world. It is exactly what fiction ought to be.”
– Todd McEwen

“Aboulela’s lovely, brief story encompasses worlds of melancholy and gulfs between cultures…A miraculous ending….A strikingly poi