Translations

Name: Translations
Brand: Penguin Random House Distribution
SKU: 9781761343872
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By Jumaana Abdu

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Winner, 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists. Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize. Shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Translations is a joy to read." - Stella Judges' report Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes. HANNAH KENT Shortlisted for the... Read More

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Translations

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Winner, 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize.

Shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Translations is a joy to read." - Stella Judges' report

Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.
HANNAH KENT

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761343872

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 August 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 419g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Jumaana Abdu is a Dal Stivens Award winner and an alumnus of the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter program. Her work features in Thyme Travellers (Roseway Publishing), an international anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction. She has been published elsewhere in Kill Your Darlings, Westerly, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Liminal, Overland, Debris and New Australian Fiction 2024. During the day, she is a medical doctor.