One Small Saga Ahmed El-Madini

One Small Saga Ahmed El-MadiniOriginally published by Coffee House Press in 1984, One Small Saga is one of Bobbie Louise Hawkins most personal and haunting autobiographical novels. [Original jacket copy:] In the early 1950s, a young Albuquerque bride accompanies her husband back to his family home in Denmark, then to London and the British colonies of Jamaica and British Honduras [now Belize]. The narrator endures the company of both pathetic and incorrigible characters while

with an introduction by Jeremy Poynting

including The Commandant of Lubizec

we’ll trudge back along the paths

Banipal 38 presents over 150 pages of works of poetry

syphilis to broken bones

writing in a range of styles and selected from all generations of short story writers and from all parts of the Arab world – from Syria

and his mother’s litany of political rants

a doppelganger gives the author something to aspire to

Sabah Zwein

explores all the different types of boy you can be – tender

Dairena N¡ Chinn‚ide

in particular