i really feel grateful for my friend jennifer ismat who introduced me to this amazing Sudanese writer .. i loved the book .. all the stories .. and i can guarantee that she did well in reflecting the conflicts inside the Muslim immigrant smoothly ,, i loved the touch of the Sudanese culture that she put in some of the stories .

ok this is my first of leila,s book after a long journey of searching for her books so i was having a great expectations for this one , you can,t denail that leila is a great writter with a very good way of butting it in paper , which actully made me very confused all the stories where well written but some of them were pointless , made me just looking to the end saying whaaaat !!! . some of the stories were just great extreemly different with ending that made say wow .i liked to stories but i w...

Tiga belas cerita pendek karya Leila Aboulela yang terangkum dalam buku berjudul 'Coloured Lights' ini sebagian besar mengisahkan persinggungan sosial, budaya, hingga religi yang dialami oleh imigran Muslim dari Afrika (terutama Sudan, negara asal penulis) selama berada di tanah Britania Raya. Kisah-kisah yang ditampilkan memang terasa begitu dekat dan sering terjadi sehari-hari sehingga seakan-akan konflik yang ingin ditampilkan tidak begitu terasa sehingga cerita sedikit terkesan hambar dan me...

Coloured lights , it is a short stories collection .In the Beginning of the book she wrote about her brother death at the day of his wedding , the cause of his death was the coloured lights. All the stories characters are Muslims, the stories talk about how Muslims live in the west . I really liked the stories , but i mostly liked coloured lights and vistors . I like the way Liela Aboulela write a novels they are very emotional and her way of writing always reflect the Muslim world and Arab cult...

just same as Divakaruni but this one is more pop and more touche. She put details in every story that made us realized int the end of the story, inserted moral of the story through words lead us. i liked Aboulela's way of story telling, smooth, pop and warm. :)

Like all the best short story writers Aboulela takes you somewhere specific and sketches in great characters within a few lines. Learnt a lot about Sudan and Islam. Would read more. The stories I liked best are the ones I read in one bite while wide awake. A lesson there. So The Museum, Majed and Baby Love.

No doubt Aboulela is a a good writer, she knows how to put simple feelings into words. Her themes are precise rotating around the experience of exile and immigration. Aboulela's works can be considered as autobiographical. There is much of reality and simplicity depictions in her text, may be as a modern writer she puts the imagination a side and decides to write only what she sees and feels, and personally I think that quiet enough to be a writer.The originality in the coloured lights come with...

Ini pertama kalinya aku membaca karya Leila Aboulela meski karya novelnya The Translator sdh berkali-kali masuk radar bacaku, sayang blm berjodoh. Lampu warna-warni ini kumcer yg sebagian besar menceritakan kisah-kisah imigran muslim Sudan (Negara Afrika asal Aboulela), di negara barat, terutama Inggris. Mengingat apa yang sedang terjadi akhir-akhir ini di Manchester dan London, cerita-cerita di buku ini menjadi sebuah catatan kaki penuh makna dalam memberikan sisi manusiawi mereka. Tidak, ini t...

Pada awalnya saya merasa buku ini lumayam membosankan karena agak kurang "bersih" terjemahannya. setidaknya sampai cerpen ketiga, penerjemahannya terasa kurang matang. Tetapi semakin saya baca, semakin saya tenggelam dengan kehidupan para imigran Sudan. Sebenarnya saya agak bosan juga sih dengan cerita cerita orang Islam di Eropa dimana saat ini menjadi semacam cerita mainstream dengan berbagai hashtag proud islam bla bla bla. Tapi buku ini lebih "adem-adem melankolis" daripada yang saya harapka...

Ini pertama kalinya saya membaca buku Leila Aboulela. Maka ekspektasi saya tidak tersetting sejak awal, hanya saya terpesona dengan cover yang manis dan sebuah tanpa Pemenang CANE PRIZE 2000 membuat saya yakin dan memboyong dari tumpukan obral. Ditambah puji-pujian di halaman pertama, mantablah saya.Cerpen pertama adalah Lampu Warna-warni yang juga dijadikan judul dalam buku ini. Cerpen ini manis sekali, saya langsung membayangkan cerpen-cerpen di Majalah Femina. Lampu-lampu kota di London dan s...

Ciri khas tulisan Leila Aboulela adalah kehalusannya, meski topik yang diangkat termasuk berat, perbenturan budaya. Mungkin sama seperti cara Divakaruni bercerita tentang perbenturan budaya imigran India di Amerika. Cerita-cerita dalam buku ini mengisahkan perjuangan para imigran muslim dari Sudan di Inggris, juga orang-orang Inggris yang mengalami persentuhan dengan Islam dan berhubungan dengan para imigran tersebut.Pergulatan batin para imigran ini tergambar dengan begitu jelas melalui dialog-...

New author for me and id definitely read more. Some really enjoyable insights into what it means to be a Sudanese woman with connections in the UK and beyond. My favourites were: Colored Lights, Souvenirs and Make your own way home. The last 2 stories are odd in that they don't seem to fit with others.

Dapet buku ini dari DERI ARDIA as a birthday present! Di sinopsisnya, buku ini menceritakan tentang imigran Muslim di Inggris; pertentangan budaya dan perjuangan spiritual, dan juga hubungan antara orang dari budaya dan keyakinan yang berbeda. Kata salah satu reviewer (The Sunday Herald), Leila Aboulela menunjukkan ragam kemungkinan dalam menjalani hidup di Dunia Barat dengan latar belakang pengetahuan dan cara berpikir nonbarat yang berbeda. DERIII kamu nulis di ucapannya kamu gak tau aku suka

Apart from the last two stories, which have a touch of magical realism, this collection of short story focuses on cultural encounters and otherness on a social and ethnic levels. The writer's style is beautifully easy but at times too direct. My favorite titles include, The Museum, Visitors, The Ostrich and Souvenirs.

This is an interesting book made up of short stories about immigrants and their struggles. It's definitely worth a read as there are several insights, including that of a man falling in love with an immigrant and the problems he then has to face.

I felt like this was the Sudanese version of "Interpreter of Maladies." A lot of the same issues relating to immigration, displacement, inter-racial relationships, etc. I guess what was different was the emphasis on the role of Islam amidst all of that. The stories were not as well-developed as they could have been. But, I did enjoy "Visitors" and "Tuesday Lunch". Tuesday Lunch was about an 8 year old girl whose mother made sure to tell all of the teachers/staff at her school that she doesn't ea...

Very moving stories of young Sudanese people's angst either in Sudan or in the UK. A great insight of immigrants' life and thoughts.

Picking up this little book, I thought I would enjoy best The Museum, the short story that won the inaugural Caine Prize for African writing. But I liked the ostrich much better. The short stories are precise and unpretending. Recently shortlisted for the commonwealth best book in the UK for her book, Lyrics Alley, Leila is probably becoming one of the few most outstanding writers with an African origin. Too bad most of these are based abroad.

A series of stories that although short, speak to Leila's fascinating range of literary ability. Her writing style not only shows talent but pushes the reader's imagination into embodying each character in every story. I am a fan.

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