Sun Palace Hanoch Levin Atar Hadari

Sun Palace Hanoch Levin Atar HadariGuangqin is a lonely girl, ignored by her ageing father and older half siblings as she entertains herself in the dilapidated courtyard of her once illustrious, storied family home in 1950s Beijing. The highlight of her year is a summer visit to the remote village home of her mothers childhood friend, where she enjoys balmy days and sleepless nights in the company of a yellow dog and a boy named Sunny. In her autobiographical novel, Ye Guangqin creates

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a voice that echoes within the heart

) and others whose stories had been forgotten

The second feature continues the New Writing in Egypt

Jean Antoine-Dunne’s lively and enriching study begins in a recognition of how important film has been in the whole of Derek Walcott’s career

In a heady neo-Orient

in which different genres could come together and blend into each other

His graphic novel Depresso was shortlisted for the MIND Book of the Year

vague green as it fluffs and swirls coarse sand

Stanley Greaves is without question one of the Caribbean’s most distinguished artists and this critical monograph is both a long overdue investigation and appreciation of his work and an important contribution to the still small body of Caribbean writing about art

They include the well-known poets Amjad Nasser and Khaled Mattawa

I noticed by chance an inscription on its fly-leaf which I must have seen many times over the years and yet barely registered: a name in faded ink and a date