The Hiding Room Alexander Stillmark

The Hiding Room Alexander StillmarkThe Hiding Room moves between Cairo and British Mandate Palestine in 1941, and Israel of 1991. In 1941 a reserved English officer falls for a waiflike Viennese Jew trying to flee to Palestine. He betrays her, then tries to save her from the consequences of his action. He too has to flee, at risk both from his fellow British soldiers and the Zionist underground. Fifty years on, at the height of the Intifada, the son of this brief partnership comes to

the hand which had tamed the thorny slope

Banipal 39 – Modern Tunisian Literature features over 150 pages of poetry and fiction by Tunisian authors

and form part of a collaboration with the composer Paul Robinson

with its own very different syntax and grammar

she was brought up near Ross-on-Wye

“an entire continent of poems whispering and singing inside Arabic and calling on us to reacquaint ourselves with its topography

This is his fourth collection

was published by Mondadori

Stathis Gourgouris

Nizar Qabbani

‘A riveting collection of stories

lost in action