GHOST SEASON

368pp., maps, paperback, Jacaranda Books, London, 2025

ISBN: 9781914344770

A debut novel about five strangers on an NGO compound caught in the conflict on the Sudanese border.

"With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan. The most vivid of images, the most likeable of characters - Ghost Season is a compelling, detailed portrait of humanity under threat from war, climate change and personal ambition." Leila Aboulela, author of River Spirit

“Ghost Season travels that narrow road between austere and gut-wrenching, and does it with incomparable grace. From the first words of this gorgeous novel to the last, Fatin Abbas holds us spellbound, immersed in the lives and the world that unfolds in its pages. Beyond the debris of war and displacement, she reminds us, rests something else that can never be truly extinguished: hope." Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King

Fatin Abbas was born in Khartoum, Sudan, and raised in New York. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, The Warwick Review and Friction, and her journalism and review essays have appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique, The Nation, The Berlin Review, Zeit Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Africa is a Country, and openDemocracy, among other places. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, the City University of New York, and teaches fiction writing in the Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.