Sulaiman Addonia

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.