Four Dervishes Naomi Jaffa João de Jesus Paes Loureiro

João de Jesus Paes Loureiro

power dynamics

"This book is unforgettable

a person of mixed ethnicity finds herself questing inside old European art and ideas

Pascale Petit trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and tutors for Tate Modern

Four Dervishes Naomi Jaffa João de Jesus Paes LoureiroIn Four Dervishes, Hammad Rind takes the dastan, an ornate form of oral history, and creates a social satire with elements of magic realism. Drawing on a long tradition of oral storytelling, Rind finds meaning for the anonymous central character whose partner has left him and whose inspiration is equally absent. In the stories within stories of the novel, sons follow in the fathers footsteps (sometimes unwittingly), crimes are committed, dark family