A provocative multifaceted gem Full of fierce anticolonial rage and subtle artistry addressing what it means to be a migrant in todays fractured Britain2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize Judges Citation

Addonias mesmerizing prose drives the narrative from one carnal thought to the next as Hannah endures racist taunts and the stress of living in limbo Its a passionate and seductive tale of resiliencePublishers Weekly starred review

This short sensual book is filled with tenderness for those caught in impersonal structures and rages with anticolonial anger at a UK asylum system that rends apart individuals and communitiesLiterary Hub

Addonia unravels Hannahs journey in one continuous paragraph bringing unyielding intensity to her provocative encounters as well as the perpetual uncertainty of the refugee experienceBooklist

Tremendous Affords refugees the dignity of bodies and eros and yearning and corporeal curiosity For fans of Lispector Bolao Battaille I read it in a single bigeyed whooshKaveh Akbar New York Times bestselling author of Martyr

The Seers boldly resists catharsis and resolution provoking readers to challenge their own notions about what it means to take refugeLiterary Review of Canada

Sulaiman Addonias The Seers delivers an ode to love in poetic prose where every single act teeters between the twins of horror and beauty and where too every story within a story transcends the reader Despite the variety of ways in which one is vanquished abroad as well as at home Sulaiman reminds us that a thousand ways of love alwaysalwaysremainShani Mootoo author of Polar Vortex

Hannah arrives in London as a teenage refugee from Eritrea with only the diary of her dead mother and memories of wartorn family life She has to navigate the faceless UK asylum system first in a foster home in Kilburn and then on the streets and parks of Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury This is also where Hannah discovers her own and her parents subversive desires The Seers is a short and powerful novel by turns sexy enraging saddening that also asks of the reader why it is that we so often insist on comparing measuring and weighing incommensurable sufferingsLondon Review Bookshop

I loved The Seers Addonias 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 measureRaymond Antrobus awardwinning poet and author

The Seers is a knockout A complex novel of generational history trauma eroticism Not only is this a novel that needs to be read nowits ambition humanity anger and an unforgettable narrator mark it out as a classicNiven Govinden awardwinning author of Diary of a Film

An incandescent howl of anticolonial rage and insatiable desire a powerful and taboobreaking love letter to a London made of stories and a scathing indictment of the UK asylum systems ability to break hearts and bodies to pieces again and againPreti Taneja awardwinning author of We That Are Young and Aftermath

This is an exquisitely brilliant novel Politically exciting and wild and beautiful I really love young Hannah a refugee who uses fucking as a genuinely radical act of seeing and beingHolly Pester author of The Lodgers

The violence that marks the worlds outcasts becomes in this compelling prose an ode to the strength to survive What an intense and passionate book Stefan Hertmans author of War and Turpentine