Dimples and Scars
Sameer Rahim: Jamal Mahjoub, 9 March 2006
The Drift Latitudes
by Jamal Mahjoub.
Chatto, 202 pp., £14.99, February 2006,0 7011 7822 1 Show More
by Jamal Mahjoub.
Chatto, 202 pp., £14.99, February 2006,
“... your own. In The Mimic Men Ralph Singh reads Le Rouge et le noir and, ‘full of the closeness of Stendhal’, sees blood in Isabella’s red sky. ‘How easy it is,’ he writes, ‘to turn that landscape, which we make ordinary by living in it and becoming part of it, into the landscape of the battlefield.’ In the Hour of Signs, despite the spilling of ... ”