Son of Sin Fleur Jaeggy and translated by Gini Alhadeff grave humour and more besides

grave humour and more besides – it rewards close attention

his fellow pupils’ cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home

as it came to be known

and Brother Man (1954)

targets of Nazi hatred

Son of Sin Fleur Jaeggy and translated by Gini Alhadeff grave humour and more besidesAn estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and