Description
Book SynopsisA dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
Trade Review"
Ghost Season travels that narrow road between austere and gut-wrenching, and does it with incomparable grace. From the first words of this gorgeous novel to the last, Fatin Abbas holds us spellbound, immersed in the lives and the world that unfold in its pages. Beyond the debris of war and displacement, she reminds us, rests something else that can never be truly extinguished: hope." -- Maaza Mengiste, Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Shadow King
"Utterly mesmerizing, and a brilliant depiction of the blurry psychological and physical borders that divide Sudan and South Sudan. An extremely promising and important first novel." -- Dave Eggers, author of The Every and What Is the What
"Immersive and astonishing,
Ghost Season brings alive with brilliant specificity the Sudanese border town of Saraaya, and an unforgettable cast of characters linked by circumstance and fate. Fatin Abbas is a remarkable writer, and this novel an extraordinary debut." -- Claire Messud, New York Times best-selling author of The Burning Girl
"A triumph of storytelling: richly imagined, finely wrought and filled with such vivid, wondrous characters. I finished this book and immediately wanted to read it again. Abbas is a writer of prodigious powers." -- Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, author of House of Stone
