Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia is an author residing in London. He was born the son of an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father in Eritrea, and spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976. In his early teens he lived and studied in Saudi Arabia [ [http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=60347| Random House] ] . He sought asylum with his brother in London in 1990 and studied at University College London [ [http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/trade-profiles/57811-note-perfect.html| The Bookseller] ] .

Sulaiman’s first novel "The Consequences of Love", published by Chatto & Windus in 2008, is a love story set in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Naser, a 20 year old refugee from Eritrea, falls in love when a veiled woman drops a note at his feet. She identifies herself by a pair of pink shoes and the two embark on an epistolary romance, hoping to meet face to face. They live in fear that the religious police may learn of their illegal romance.

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