Sweet Days of Discipline Ali al-Kasimi and then to those of

and then to those of young authors Bothayna al-Essa

The erotic is as part of his experience as eating

tried and sentenced to the appalling world of a Jamaican colonial prison

Fawzi Karim Selected Poems

Anne Ridler and John Heath-Stubbs

Sweet Days of Discipline Ali al-Kasimi and then to those ofSet in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggys eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as