Tag: A Slow Suicide
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A Second Review of Mubarak Kamal’s A Slow Suicide
Mubarak Kamal’s A Slow Suicide “is a tale // Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, // Signifying nothing.” One is surprised by the wanton explosiveness of an idiot, and more so, and, especially from one we cannot tell with exactness the source of his violence. The novel abruptly starts with unrestrained destruction,…
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A Review of Mubarak Kamal’s A Slow Suicide
Mubarak Kamal’s A Slow Suicide is the book I read the most this year, perhaps four times in editing its drafts until it saw its way through publication. How much I was honored to have edited it, and how I am proud of the author, is very clear now. What is clearer however is that…
Derbeel Q8 