The Seer

PUBLISHING ON 27 JUNE 2024 AND AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

About THE SEERS :

The Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.

Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and erotic lives of its characters as their identities are shaped, but refused to be suppressed, by the bureaucratic processes of the UK asylum system.

Priase for THE SEERS:

“The Seers is an incandescent howl of anti-colonial rage and insatiable desire; a powerful and taboo-breaking love letter to a London made of stories, and a scathing indictment of the UK asylum system’s ability to break hearts and bodies to pieces again and again.” – Preti Taneja

“I loved The Seers. Addonia’s writing is full of energy that engages the whole body. The voice is vivid, alive and real. It has elements of my favourite writers in it; I thought of Albert Camus, Claude Mckay, Junot Diaz and Binyavanga Wainaina while reading it. Brutal and tender in equal measure.” – Raymond Antrobus