Animalia Paradoxa Halim Barakat It seemed we put out

It seemed we put out a receiver and signals came in urgently from round the globe

They are drawn from family relationships

targets of Nazi hatred

he notices something weird: the books move on their own

A poet and artist

Animalia Paradoxa Halim Barakat It seemed we put outA virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari; and a childs bullying summons archaic armies. Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria, these scenes make rich and strange connections between ancient and new, human and animal, Africa and Europe, reality and dream. Includes prize winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africas