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 Minaret - Leila Aboulela
 Minaret - Leila Aboulela ... Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNewest Review: ... in the background with downcast eyes and finding pleasure in servic people as a domestic hand. Once orphaned she gives every ... more ... last penny she had to support her boyfriend's education and only to be shunned by him rather crudely as she slowly embraces islamic practises and she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim women's community and the mosque . The more conservative she becomes the more westernised her brother becomes and towards the end of the novel we find him serving a life time prison sentence for pedlling drugs and stabbing a policeman.
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Minaret - Leila Aboulela: when women from east come to west (494 words)
by - written on 17/10/08 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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This is the second novel by the Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela and her first long story based on an acute sense of geographical and cultural shift/gap most easterners coming to the west (or vice versa ) feel. It beautifully and powerfully potrays the apparent coming down in the world of the main charachter Najwa who belonged to the privilaged upper/aristrocratic society in Khartoum and who along with her mum and twin brother has to seek political exile in Britain even while her father is tried and executed following a political coup. Najwa who was used to maids and servants slowly becomes servile herself..choosing to slowly stay in the background ... Read the complete review
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