Mordechai's Moustache & His Wife's Cat Christopher Meredith especially in this revised new

especially in this revised new edition

Samih al-Qasim

Machineries of Joy is the vibrant

with a breadth that ranges from philosophical flights of fancy to the gritty detective story

No Pain Like This Body (1973) to review

Mordechai's Moustache & His Wife's Cat Christopher Meredith especially in this revised newMahmoud Shukair's first major publication in English translation enthralls, surprises and shocks as one of the world's most original of storytellers excels in exposing the surreal moments in the ordinary and the mundane, the limits of human frustration and patience, and the intricacies of tiny daily obsessive practices. Brimming with humour that ranges from the funny and the farcical, to satire and black comedy, with a painter's eye for colour and