317pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1994) 2024
Fictionalised memoir.
British-Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub was born in London in 1960 and raised in Khartoum. Since then he has lived in several cities, including London, Aarhus, Barcelona and Amsterdam. He is the author of seven other novels including The Fugitives, Travelling With Djinns, In the Hour of Signs and Navigation of a Rainmaker, as well as a travel memoir A Line in the River: Khartoum, city of memory. In 2012, Mahjoub began publishing crime fiction under the pseudonym 'Parker Bilal'.