Chapter 10: Two Burials, by Jumaana Abdu

The sun rises in the west.

Two Burials by Jumaana Abdu

Read by Zena Abdo.

Synopsis

On the last day on Earth, the sun rises in the West, and Luqman must bury the body of his companion, Habil.

A beautiful, folkloric journey, Two Burials, brings a together questions of the spiritual, and political, in a story about connection, and what those connections mean to us at the end.

Originally published in phoebe magazine, as winner of the 2025 fiction contest.

Listeners are advised that this episode of Unfolded comes with a language and content warning.

About Jumaana Abdu

Jumaana Abdu is the author of Translations (Vintage) which was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the MUD Literary Prize, and a NSW Premier’s Literary Award. She was named SMH Best Young Novelist in 2025 and her widely published fiction and essays have won the Dal Stivens Award, the Patricia Hackett Prize, and the Phoebe Journal fiction prize. During the day, she is a medical doctor.

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Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years.

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