Seraphim Editions, 2008
250 pages
ISBN-10: 0980887933
ISBN-13: 978-0980887938
New review in the East African by Sophie Alal.
When a country is created out of the fragments of other people’s dreams - such as the Orientalist dream of a Pharaonic north and darkest Africa beneath - people who have forgotten who they are can be made to fight over dreams that are not their own.
Read the review here.
The launch of The Year of Numbers is provisionally scheduled for 23rd May, 5-7pm in the Palette Restaurant, above Afriart Gallery, Kampala. More details and directions coming soon…
Interview in UG Pulse.
What part of writing The Year of Numbers did you enjoy most?
I enjoyed writing a lot of the descriptions of Cairo just because it made me remember what an amazing place Egypt is and what it felt like to live there. Cairo is an incredibly sophisticated and complex city and when you write about it you can feel yourself moving between the layers - modern sensibilities piled upon thousands of years of history, a kind of resilient vivaciousness coupled with a lot of poverty and repressed anger.
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Review by Leila Marshy in Rover Arts magazine.
CAIRO IS NOT FOR SISSIES. BUT THEY GO, wearing short shorts and sunscreen, swarming the Pyramids and haggling with the taxi drivers, insisting they pay only the “Egyptian price.” But believe me, they don’t want to pay the “Egyptian price.” Those who do, regret it.
Read the full review here.