Alara Adilow
Look at All the Light
Few writers are able to show with such biting clarity how class plays into a person’s transition
“I did the right thing. I’ve become successful. I wanted to win for you, mum,” whispers Sagal as she mops up the last drips of sick with her dress. Her mother is an addict, her house a dealer hangout, her bedroom a cannabis farm. Sagal dreams of taking revenge on the white world that shut her out. She decides to become rich – incredibly rich. At just thirty, she owns a marketing company turning millions in profit.
Fiction
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Publisher
De Bezige Bij
Year of publication
2025
Page count
288
Contact for translation rights
Marijke Nagtegaal
Author
Alara Adilow
Alara Adilow (1988) is a Dutch-Somalian poet and novelist, named 2024's biggest literary talent by leading newspaper de Volkskrant. Her first collection of poetry Mythen en stoplichten (Myths and Traffic Lights, 2022) was awarded the Herman de Coninckprijs and the C. Buddingh’-prijs.