While Gods Are Falling Seema Atalla Mai Ghoussoub reviews Harrouda

Mai Ghoussoub reviews Harrouda

many parallel instances not only in the history of literature but of societies in general - as anyone who was young in 1968 and has survived into the age of Aids will be aware

Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi: Short story Mad Dog Disease

I draw myself

While Gods Are Falling Seema Atalla Mai Ghoussoub reviews HarroudaWalter Castle is festering with dissatisfactions in the Laventille slum in Port of Spain. As the prospect of promotion recedes and the threat of crime and lawless and rootless youth become ever more insupportable, he begins to think of going back to the village community he grew up in. But as Lovelace shows in a series of flashbacks, the force of nostalgia is not supported by actual memory, though Walter constantly tries to deceive himself that it is.