The Seers Philippe Jaccottet and translated by Tim Dooley

The Seers Philippe Jaccottet and translated by Tim DooleyThe Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someones story as land and nations are. Hannah

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often fantastical fashion

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