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In Our Mad and Furious City
Published by Tinder Press (UK), MCD Books/FSG (US), Atlas (Sweden), Grasset (France), Fazi Editore (Italy) ‘A Début Novel Captures a City on the Boil’ – James Wood, New Yorker Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, and the rampant burning of mosques that followed, Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and…
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Mister, Mister
Published by Tinder Press (UK), Pantheon (US), Dar Tashkeel (KSA) ‘This fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious’ – Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety Who…
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Ben Gvir Reads Wiesel To Mourners
An embattled Israeli politician reads Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’ for gathered mourners. One by one, the bereaved approach to relate stories of loss and dispossession. Currently in workshop.
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The Life and Times of Yahya Bas
Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy . When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. The stage adaptation of the novel Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne. Currently in progress.
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You’re a Londoner
Granta’s Winter 2024. An essay contribution alongside images by Kalpesh Lathigra. Read here.