Praise for The Translator:

"A story of love and faith all the more moving for the restraint with which it is written."

-J. M. Coetzee

"It is refreshing to read a novel that tries to give Muslims their due. For Aboulela, faith is not an ossified overbearing cross that crushes its followers.... It is a liberating force."

-The Suiulut- Herald

"Aboulela is a wonderfully poetic writer: she has a way with little details. . . . It is a pleasure to read a novel so full of feeling and yet so serene."

-The Guardian