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Weekly Readings @Seagull: Session 2

Fri, 28 Feb

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Seagull Books Pvt. Ltd.

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Weekly Readings @Seagull: Session 2
Weekly Readings @Seagull: Session 2

Time & Location

28 Feb 2020, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Seagull Books Pvt. Ltd., 36c, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Rd, • Patuapara, पतुअ[no name]पारा, Jatin Das Park, Bakul Bagan, Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal 700025, India

About the Event

We meet this Friday for our second readings session. Come listen, read, share, reflect.

Text: The Village Indian, Abbas Khider.

About the book

Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home.

From Iraq via Northern Africa through Europe and back again, Abbas Khider deftly blends the tragic with the comic, and the grotesque with the ordinary, in order to tell the story of suffering the real and brutal dangers of life as a refugee—and to remember the haunting faces of those who did not survive the journey. This is a stunning piece of storytelling, a novel of…

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