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Title: Translations
Author: ABDU JUMAANA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/08/2024
Imprint: VINTAGE AUSTRALIA
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize.
Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.
HANNAH KENT
‘Translations is a joy to read.’
Stella Judges’ report
Shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize.
Amid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural New South Wales to make a new life. Aliyah manages to secure a run-down property and hires a farmhand, Shep, an extremely private Palestinian man and the region’s imam.
During a storm, she drives past the town’s river and happens upon a childhood friend, Hana, who has been living a life of desperation. Aliyah takes her in and tries to navigate the indefinable relationships between both Hana and her farmhand. Tensions rise as Aliyah’s growing bond with Shep strains her devotion to Hana.
Finally, all are thrown together for a reckoning alongside Hana’s brother, Hashim, and Aliyah’s confidante, Billie – a local Kamilaroi midwife she met working at the hospital – while bushfires rage around them.
ISBN: 9781761343872
Weight: 419g
Dimension: 233mm X 155mm
Pages: 336
Edition: 01