We Are All Birds of Uganda

De: Hafsa Zayyan

Narrado por: Taheen Modak, Sagar Arya

Brought to you by Penguin.

You can’t stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will....

1960s Uganda. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes power and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built.

Present-day London. Sameer, a young, high-flying lawyer, senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his family home by an unexpected tragedy, Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans, but in a past he never knew.

Moving between two continents and several generations over a troubled century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, moving and immensely resonant novel of love, loss and what it means to find home.

It is the first work of fiction by Hafsa Zayyan, co-winner of the inaugural #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize and one of the most exciting young novelists of today.

©2021 Hafsa Zayyan (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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This is a wonderful story. I wanted more at the end. So much to reflect on re: culture, family ,obligation ethnicity, race... love. It’s a wonderful love story.

You should review this recording. I heard coughing twice and there are a few instances when the reader repeats sentences. So it needs editing a bit more.

I liked the two points of view, illustrating the generational ties echoing through time and place.