Adam Ingliz has a dream, a single goal: to become a professor of linguistics at Oxford. He leaves Sudan and crosses Europe along the Ant Trail, which takes him from Graz to the jungle of Calais. There, thousands wait in tents to cross the English Channel in a dinghy or under a truck. However, he decides to get a hot air balloon – to fly like the ravens, to whom he increasingly turns. The raven that loved me is a novel about escape, the choices one makes, 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 steadfastly clings to his dream. One doomed to fail, whose tragedy represents many. And whose story, through the tales of his friends, seems as fantastic as E. A. Poe's raven, knocking at the door late at night.