The Seers

"Sulaiman Addonia, born in 1974 to an Eritrean mother and Ethiopian father, lived in a Sudanese refugee camp as a child, before landing stateless in London via Saudi Arabia. After mastering English, he settled in Brussels. His third novel (the second to be published in the U.S.) pushes gender, race and national boundaries. Hannah, an Eritrean refugee sex worker, both loving and violent, fixates on men and women. She’s bereft and traumatized yet enamored of London’s wet weather. She lives moment to moment but is consumed by her past. The result is a fever dream of emotion and geopolitics, with Addonia’s command of language and structure making for a breathtaking, original read."