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This Other Salt Aamer Hussein
This Other Salt
Aamer Hussein
In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging and the writer?s role. In "This Other Salt" a writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; in "The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger" a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a biblical legend; and in "The Blue Direction" a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta. Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of This Other Salt reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 1, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780863563799 |
| Publishers | Saqi Books |
| Pages | 204 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 210 × 20 mm · 394 g |
| Language | English |