6/27/2023 0 Comments Lyrics alley by leila aboulela![]() Meanwhile, Nur's impoverished former tutor Ustaz Badr secretly encourages him to write poetry. He wants Nur to go to an English university in the United Kingdom and take over the family business, as Mahmoud's oldest son Nasir is lazy and a spendthrift. Nur has dreams of being a poet, but his father, wealthy businessman Mahmoud Abuzeid, is completely opposed to this. In 1950s Sudan, beautiful student Soraya can barely wait to marry her handsome and intelligent cousin Nur. Aboulela states that by writing a book set in Sudan, she wanted to dispel "stereotypical images of famine and war" so often associated with the country. She moved the events of his life into the 1950s so they would coincide with Sudanese independence. The book is a fictionalised account of the life of Sudanese poet Hassan Awad Aboulela.Īboulela decided to write a novel based on the life of her uncle, a poet in the 1940s who was bedridden for 20 years. Lyrics Alley is a 2010 novel by Sudanese author Leila Aboulela. ![]()
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