From the back:

"The Translator is a story about love, both human and divine. Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husband and estrangement from her young son, she drifts - grieving and isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds herself falling in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. To Sammar, he seems to come from another world and another culture, yet they are drawn to each other."

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From Amazon.co.uk:

Review

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

'A lyrical journey about exile, loss and love... poetry in motion' --The Sunday Times

'She pulls you into her world as she refracts British life, its smells and sounds, its advertisements and turns of phrase.' --The Independent

Product Description

"Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husband, and estranged from her young son, she drifts, grieving and isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds herself falling in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. To Sammar, he seems to come from another world and another culture, yet they are drawn to each other. 'The Translator' is a story about love, both human and divine. Leila Aboulela's first novel, first published in 1999, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize. It has subsequently appeared in editions worldwide."

About the Author

"Leila Aboulela was born in 1964, grew up in Khartoum and moved to the UK in her twenties to study at the London School of Economics. In 1992, while living in Aberdeen with two young children and a husband working offshore, Leila found comfort through writing about her home city. She attended creative-writing workshops which helped to broaden her reading and introduced her to Scottish writers. Her last novel 'Minaret', published by Bloomsbury, was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Leila Aboulela now lives in Abu Dhabi and is currently working on her third novel."

This is a beautiful, moving tale of love, cultural interaction, immigration and faith. I'm not a religious person myself and I think that's why I was fascinated by how religion was such an integral, inseparable part of Sammar's life and her whole being. Aboulela writes very beautifully and with grace. I'm sure this story will stay with me for a long time.

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This was a story of faith and love. The cultural and religious differences were vividly descibed as well as the sights and sounds of both places. Love and faith know no boundaries.

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