Imagined Sons Robert Saxton Rafik Schami What I learnt

Rafik Schami What I learnt from Sheherazade

a tragic year in the history of post-communist Albania

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though this stance is not unproblematic: the narrator of ‘Batty Bwoy

Imagined Sons Robert Saxton Rafik Schami What I learntIn Imagined Sons Carrie Etter reflects on the experience of a birthmother who gave up her son when she was seventeen. In a series of haunting, psalm like prose poems of enormous courage and insight, she describes possible encounters with this son now in his late teens, expressing how sometimes the melancholy arrives before the remembering. The series of Birthmothers Catechisms return to repeated, harrowing questions that yield different answers at