'Aboulela is the kind of writer form whom British people need to hear.' The Telegraph
'All Leila Aboulela's Muslim characters . . . discover a sense of direction through religion, made stronger through the feelings of displacement.' The New Statesman
'Aboulela shows the rich possibilities of living in the West with different non-Western ways of knowing and thinking.' The Sunday Herald
Coloured Lights was the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Leila Aboulela. One of the stories, ‘The Museum’, won the first Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000.
The title story in this collection tells of a tragic accident at a Khartoum wedding; in another, romance blossoms in a Scottish kebab shop. Two new stories deal with the emotional intricacies of young women; their feeling of being caught between two competing worlds and their attempts to feel at home.
Leila Aboulela was born in 1964, grew up in Khartoum and moved to the UK in her twenties to study at the London School of Economics. Her first novel, The Translator, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Saltire Prize.
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