Silence is My Mother Tongue

side by side series of the cover of Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia

“When does that line between the real and imagined begin to blur?”: An Interview with Sulaiman Addonia

While Addonia’s new novel gives us innumerable examples of what is missing from the lives of his characters, living in a refugee camp after their country is swept into war, each is combatted with a bout of illusion, a tactic to conquer the absences and to enliven what remains: their lives.