# Ghost Season

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- Book: [Ghost Season](https://www.bookquiver.com/fatin-abbas/ghost-season) ([Ghost Season.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fatin-abbas/ghost-season.md))
- Authors: [Fatin Abbas](https://www.bookquiver.com/fatin-abbas)
- Publisher: jacaranda_books
- ISBN: 978-19-1434-477-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2026-01-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A beautifully dynamic novel which connects five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border. A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, this discovery foreshadows more trouble to come. Everyone has a different story. William, a South Sudanese translator, connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a nomad from the north with whom he's fallen in love. Amidst the chaos, Dena, a Sudanese-American filmmaker, struggles to find a connection with her homeland. There is Alex, a white aid worker from the American Midwest whose plans in the country are derailed by a rapidly changing climate and an impending civil war. And then there is Mustafa, a precocious twelve-year-old boy, whose plans to escape poverty set off a series of cataclysmic events on the compound. Living in a Sudan riven by conflict presents challenges for William, Layla, Dena, Alex and Mustafa. To overcome them, they must forge bonds stronger than the blood they don't share. Fatin Abbas weaves a story of Sudan's partition into the fabric of her characters identities while exploring the porous and perilous nature of borders. Ghost Season is a gripping, must-have debut that announces Abbas as a powerful new voice in fiction.