Hammad Rind

Four Dervishes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"...arrives like the brightest comet, a dazzling work of art full of invention, playfulness and Chaucerian tale-telling, by fakirs in a far-off cemetery. Their ornate stories are full of Mughals and caliphs, old kings and city black-outs. This heady, compelling fusion of cultures - East meeting West - complete with social satire is a remarkable debut. Easily the most remarkable work of fiction to come out of Wales in a thousand moons." - Jon Gower

"Four Dervishes is a fascinating adaptation of a medieval classic spun into a satirical and magical realist novel about our times." - Tabish Khair

One monsoon night, a power cut forces a man full of disappointments on to the streets of the town. Sheltering in a cemetery he comes across four others - a grave digger, an aristocrat, an honourable criminal and a messiah - each with a past, and with a story to tell. Crimes have been committed, dark family secrets revealed, fortunes rise and fall, the varieties of love are explored, and new selves are discovered in a rich round of storytelling. And as the Disappointed Man discovers, a new story is about to begin...
Four Dervishes draws on a long tradition of storytelling as it skewers issues like religious bigotry, injustice, the denial of women's rights, and class division. Lavishly inventive, verbally rich, an exotic confection, this novel is both darkly thematic and humorously playful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seren
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781726327
• Artikelnr.: 62791448

Autorenporträt

Hammad Hassan Rind is a writer, linguist and teacher. Originally from Punjab, Pakistan, he lives in Cardiff. He is the co-organiser of Just Another Poet, Wales' first YouTube channel dedicated to poetry, and runs @words.from.punjab, an Instagram account relating the stories and etymologies of obscure words in the languages of Punjab. He performs at local open mic events, particularly at the BAME platform Where I'm Coming From, and has had stories published in journals and anthologies. He competed in Mastermind in 2015 (specialist subject: the Persian poet Rumi). He is currently working on a new novel on the issues of race and identity in contemporary Britain.