5/8/2023 0 Comments Lyrics alley![]() ![]() As British rule nears its end, the country is torn between modernizing influences and the call of traditions past-a conflict reflected in the growing tensions between Mahmoud’s two wives: Nabilah, who longs to return to Egypt and escape “backward-looking” Sudan, while Waheeba lives traditionally, confined to her open-air kitchen. But when his son, Nur, the brilliant, handsome heir to his business empire, suffers a debilitating accident, the family is suddenly confronted with an uncertain future. In 1950’s Sudan, Mahmoud Abuzeid has amassed a fortune through his trading firm. Winner of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction and short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South Asia and Europe), Lyrics Alley is the evocative story of an affluent Sudanese family shaken by the startling shifts in their country’s politics and their family’s legacy. ![]()
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