Ghost Season
A Novel

A poignant account of five lives linked together forever against the backdrop of the Sudanese border as tragedy lurks, then explodes forward. Each character is nuanced and impactful; reflecting the complicated and ever changing statuses of a nation on the brink of conflict. This is a novel that is e......more

This book was such an unexpectedly stunning read. First it lulled me into a false sense of safety and made me love the characters but just when I started to think it had been misrepresented to me things got intense and in the end it broke my heart to the point where my reading notes were a little (c......more

This novel’s setting is in a town located on what is now the border between South Sudan and Sudan during the final years of the Second Sudanese Civil War. This places the story’s action during the early 2000s. The story is centered around five characters with diverse personalities, ethnicities, and......more

Whoa some nice writing here ... in this debut novel about five strangers who come to know each other well while working for a humanitarian organization at a compound in Sudan. There's Alex, an American whose job it is to make a map of the surrounding areas; William, a South Sudanese translator; Layl......more

GHOST SEASON by Fatin Abbas is an astonishingly good novel about five strangers whose lives rapidly become intertwined in an NGO compound in the Sudanese border town of Saraaya. Set during the Sudanese Civil War, an ominous tone pervades the narrative, though the characters themselves are bright ray......more