In the midst of a terrorist attack on a bookstore reading by Göran
Loberg, a comic book artist famous for demeaning drawings of the prophet
Mohammed, one of the attackers, a young woman, has a sudden premonition
that something is wrong, changing the course of history. Two years
later, this unnamed woman invites a famous writer to visit her in the
criminal psychiatric clinic where she's living. She then shares with him
an incredible story--she is a visitor from an alternate future.
Despite discrepancies that make the writer highly skeptical, he becomes
increasingly fascinated by her amazing tale: in her dystopian future,
any so-called "anti-Swedish" citizens are forced into a horrific ghetto
called The Rabbit Yard. As events begin to spiral and the author becomes
more and more implicated in this woman's tale, he comes to believe the
unbelievable: she's telling the truth.
A remarkably intense, beautifully wrought tale that combines the
ingenuity of speculative fiction with the difficulties of today's harsh
political realities, They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears is the
groundbreaking, award-winning work from the bestselling Swedish-Ugandan
author Johannes Anyuru. With echoes of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the
Charlie Hebdo tragedy, and anti-immigrant hysteria, this largest and
most complex novel from an already celebrated poet, author, and spoken
word artist catapults him to the front ranks of world writers.
