Shadow of the SunImpoverished Egyptian teacher Helmy is deperate to find a better life for himself, his wife and little boy, seeing no future at home in Cairo. He dreams of working in oil rich Kuwait and its boom in construction being the answer, just like many thousands before him. He manages to borrow the huge cost of a visa and is at last on his way to Kuwait City. He has no idea of the nightmare, instead of the dream, that awaits him the relentless summer sun with

and from work by the contemporary Galician poet

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While attending St

sounds and sights of this bewitching city

and the lives of every child in the pueblo

having to do construction work instead of teaching

Margaret Obank: Dear Mr Kawabata by Rashid al-Daif

this illustrated book tracks down the writers

Miklos Radnoti translated from the Hungarian by Stephen Capus

He presents two very different forms

one of the UK’s foremost contemporary poets

much like Victor and Barry themselves