description: A story set in Harar, a Muslim walled city in Ethiopia. The story is of a young girl on a pilgramage to a holy man in the city who does not accept her because of her white skin. She ends up staying in the city, growing up, and becoming more Ethiopian than anything else, before finally moving to Canada during the country's revolution.
title: Sweetness in the Belly
titlecomplete: Sweetness in the Belly
characters: Aziz, Lilly, Amina
genres: Islam, Novels, Book Club, Religion, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canada, Africa, Ethiopia, British Literature
ratings_count: 9197
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Traduction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Trillium Book Award
publisher: Doubleday Canada