"Adam Ingliz has a dream, a single goal: to become a professor of linguistics at Oxford. He leaves Sudan and crosses Europe on the 'ant trail', which leads him via Graz to the 'jungle' of Calais. There, thousands wait in tents to cross the English Channel in a rubber dinghy or under a truck. But he decides to get himself a hot air balloon - to fly like the ravens, to whom he increasingly turns his attention.

The Raven Who Loved Me is a novel about flight, the decisions you make and love in all its facets. With humor and empathy for his characters, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin creates a polyphonic life story of a migrant who stubbornly holds on to his dream. A man condemned to failure, whose tragedy stands for many. And whose story, through the stories of his friends, seems as fantastic as E. A. Poe's raven knocking on the door late at night." (Publisher)