Wretchedness Salah Niazi

Wretchedness Salah NiaziWaiting by the canal, a young cellist meets a junkie, high and drifting. He gives him twenty krona and they exchange a few words; the encounter is unremarkable. Yet for the cellist who grew up a poor immigrant in the outskirts of Malm, and who lost friends and family to drug abuse, crime and death a barrier in his mind has collapsed, and he leaves the canal chased by a creeping floodtide of memories, all of which threaten to drag him back to where he

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like prayer and other holy forms

She previously worked for several years as submissions editor for Haus Publishing

never losing his sense of sheer delight" – The Guardian

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to Saud Alsanousi’s The Bamboo Stalk and Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles

often angry and always decisive

trying to come to terms with the meaning of what Philip Larkin

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Wynn Thomas provides an afterword describing how Humphreys came to write the novel