Jamal Mahjoub
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A moving portrait, part history, part memoir, of Sudan - once the largest most diverse country in Africa - and its self-destruction. In 1956, Sudan gained Independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict, including the crisis in Darfur which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and driven many more from their homes. When the 1989 coup brought a hard-line Islamist regime to power,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Star Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this fictionalised memoir, Jamal Mahjoub interrogates how the first generation of Northern Sudanese citizens undertook the momentous task of creating a newly independent nation. Exiled in a dilapidated hotel in South-West France, Sharif looks back on his rich and eventful life to date. Memories of a bohemian existence in England and France - a time of love affairs and excess clash with more recent memories of navigating the volatile and unprecedented...
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. There is no part of the world...