even when broaching the harder subjects of life
There are poems examining belonging / unbelonging
and literary festivals photo-reports
Banipal 47 – Fiction from Kuwait
sometimes with wry humour
Song of our Swampland Jeremy Hooker even when broaching the harderWhen the killing starts in Dhaka, the villagers know the army from West Pakistan will soon be in their area, but unlike the other young men, and his beloved step sister Moni Banu, Kamal cannot join the resistance. Born with a hole for a mouth, most people, except Abbas Miah, the teacher who adopts him, his friends and Moni Banu, regard him as the village idiot. With Abbas Miah, Kamal embarks on a Noahs ark journey, with the motley survivors of the