The Seers

Written by Sulaiman Addonia

Narrated by Mylène Gomera

Length

5h 10m

"The 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, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are. It is an incredible work of storytelling and world building. It is complex and touching; it defamiliarizes London and makes it familiar again, but from the position of those marginalised by prejudice and fear. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and erotic lives of its characters as their identities are shaped, but refused to be suppressed, by the bureaucratic processes of the UK asylum system."