October 26: Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas

October 26, ONLINE12pm New York  | 5pm London | 6pm Khartoum#TheSudanSyllabus Join the book club and meet the author. Friendly discussion about the novel Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas is part of Sudan Syllabus programming and will be hosted by Bhakti Shringarpure. We are coming together to learn, study and engage with Sudan’s history and culture and to understand the devastating ongoing conflict.  Buy the bookThe novel is widely available in different formats. See here to purchase your copy.  About the bookA dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border. A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he’s fallen in love.