Have just finished reading Cities Without Palms by Tarek Eltayeb.
It is a sad story of how Hamza leaves his village in Sudan and travels first to Khartoum, then to Egypt, then to Italy to earn money to send back to support his mother and sisters.
He has many adventures, occasionally falling among criminals, at one point having an affair.
Eventually he returns to his village to find it deserted and his mother and sisters dead.
"For the first time in my life I know what it truly means to be a stranger."
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