{"title":"Salma Ibrahim","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"salutation-road","title":"Salutation Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A bold, intriguing act of imagination. . .\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSalutation Road\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econfronts important questions about parallel existences splintered by immigration, the price of survival, and the ways migration and distance reshape blood ties and family.' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize shortlisted author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRiver East, River West\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSalutation Road\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told literary debut for fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, doing her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London, she can’t help but wonder if this is the life she really wants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne morning, Sirad boards her bus to work and finds herself transported to an alternate timeline in present-day Mogadishu. Over the course of a single day, under the sweltering East African sun, Sirad must contend with a lost reality. There she encounters an almost unrecognizable version of her family and comes face to face with her double, Ubah – the woman she could have been, had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBack home in Greenwich, Sirad must go on with life, consumed by all she now knows. But then Ubah mysteriously appears in London, and Sirad begins to understand that nothing will ever be the same again . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54909978018165,"sku":"9781035044344","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/eb8136b2-3088-4a5b-a2f8-f52e10b9e4f7.jpg?v=1736259835"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/salma-ibrahim.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}