Mister N Rosie Shepperd Abdu Khal – Excerpt from

Abdu Khal – Excerpt from the novel Clay

translated by Quentin Crisp

Introduction and interview by Camilo Gomez-Rivas

and Iraqi Duna Ghali with an excerpt from her novel When the Scent Awakens

No illumination

Mister N Rosie Shepperd Abdu Khal – Excerpt fromModern day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: poverty, violence and fear. How is anyone supposed to write deathless prose in such circumstances? Let alone an old man like Mister N., whose life and memories have become scattered, whose