Alindarka's Children Shawqi Shafiq Straddling the fissures within a

Straddling the fissures within a man and his country

Among the book reviews in Banipal 47 are reviews of works by two winners of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal’s winning novel Throwing Sparks

Love letters come from Libya and desperate postcards from Powys

But being the valiant princesa she is

Alindarka's Children Shawqi Shafiq Straddling the fissures within aThe masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from Belarus Alicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language, the Lingo (Russian). A contemporary Hansel and Gretel adventure, the children