Praiseworthy Akram al-Katreb from the Garden of Eden

from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall

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Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

Janet McGiffin takes us on a thrilling adventure through the perils of medieval Constantinople

Praiseworthy Akram al-Katreb from the Garden of EdenIn a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his peoples independence forever. He finds, however, as he bundles feral donkeys into his Ford Falcon and dumps them en masse in the cemetery, that not all of Praiseworthy agrees. Outrage ferments at his desecration of traditional