A Long Way from Douala Phil Cope

A Long Way from Douala Phil CopeImportant issues of violence, terrorism, homosexuality and migration feature in A Long Way from Douala, the first publication in English of a work by Max Lob, an important new voice in African writing. On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighborhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when, at a pit stop, Simon goes wandering

There is a statue of Tvardovsky and Tyorkin in Smolensk

The Sunday Independent

It is 1961 and a ‘Labour’ party rules the self-governing colony of Barbados

It takes the form of an extended annotated directory

Abdul Wahab al-Bayati: Poem Death and the Lamp

Marzanna Bogumila Kielar

“A richly comic debut novel of youthful dreams and adult despair

the New York Times Magazine

Frans De Haes on Babel

including the deadpan-funny 'Why I Lied My Way Through Childhood'

folk-tales

with matches in the oat grass