The Godmother and other Stories Judith Kazantzis

The Godmother and other Stories Judith KazantzisCovering more than four decades in the lives of Guyanese at home or in Britain and Canada, these stories have an intensive and rewarding inner focus on a character at a point of crisis. Harold is celebrating the victory of the political party he supports whilst confronting a sense of his own powerlessness; Jacob has been sent back to Guyana from Britain after suffering a mental breakdown; Chuni, a worker at the university, is confused by the climate

In 2009 he was awarded the Tamgha-I-Khidmat medal by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

and his music has been performed throughout the US

hurt by the sky’s anger on the seed’s weak ribs

Hanan al-Shaykh Excerpt from her novel

Blodeuedd is often thought to represent the natural world in human form

it is also a political work

Fadhila el Farouk from Algeria

longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC award and shortlisted for several other prizes in 2011

voices that had scarcely reached the ears of any public

The ship sleeps on the shore

journeys of the mind

Her first book