Beyond Babylon

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By Igiaba Scego and Aaron Robertson ’17

Published May 22, 2019

Beyond Babylon (Two Lines) weaves together interpersonal and external conflict, as two half-sisters, connected only through a mostly-absent father, maneuver through war in Argentina and Somalia before coming to Italy. Translator Aaron Robertson ’17 initially translated the book as his senior thesis at Princeton before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant.

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