Exile Naima El Bezaz

Exile Naima El BezazExile is a collection of short stories with the taste of a novel. The over riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from society. By offering the reader short, vivid glimpses into other worlds; be they of real or fictional characters, Ilhan builds a patchwork of stories which highlight the lives of the dispossessed. As a woman writing in modern day Turkey, she is not afraid to

Each is too white to make much mark

including Ploughshares

“John Walsh’s work is brave

and Banipal’s visit to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

For many years he was Bradford's first (and only) Poet Laureate

Faisal Darraj on the problems besetting Arab novelists

Purgatory canto xix

all the while watched over by the kaleidoscope eyes of The Ringmaster’s Apprentice

PLUS poems by Ounsi el Hage

Josephine wishes it would all go away

it was Peepal Tree Press’s bestselling title of 2010

which won her the European Prize for Literature in 2011