Fiction
The Book of Naseeb
by Khaled Nurul Hakim
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The Book of Naseeb tells the story of an idealistic heroin dealer who dreams of fitting the victims of war in Afghanistan with artificial limbs. In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service stations of modern Britain to the desert and mountains of a fictional borderland. Written in an exhilarating, incantatory blend of street argot and Quranic-inspired language, The Book of Naseeb charts an epic journey like no other. 'A completely absorbing, singular book. Night journey, border odyssey, angel's-eye view of human striving.' YASMINE SEALE
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Endorsements
‘What a book - visionary, terrifying, remarkable use of language. London, Birmingham, Afghan borderland. Khaled Nurul Hakim is a writer you won't forget, and this deserves to be read.’
TOM BOLTON
'Mystical and illuminating'
TONY WHITE
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A profound contemplation of human struggle ... remarkably impressive.
★★★★★
Daniel Baksi, The Arts Desk
A completely absorbing, singular book. Night journey, border odyssey, angel’s-eye view of human striving.
Yasmine Seale
What a book - visionary, terrifying, remarkable use of language. London, Birmingham, Afghan borderland. Khaled Nurul Hakim is a writer you won't forget.
Tom Bolton
[Hakim] takes the small, the mundane, the petty, and sets it against a staggering backdrop. The Book of Naseeb is compulsive reading.
Joe Darlington, Manchester Review of Books
This is not merely the sacred slapped into electrified form by some cuss words. This is a piece of literature and its threads vanish into the hardback spine and back through to antiquity via modernism ... [Hakim] knows how to make a whole lineage of myth come alive with a single sign.
Steve Hanson, Manchester Review of Books
Penned in the Margins
Penned in the Margins creates award-winning publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks. From modest beginnings as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, Penned in the Margins has grown over the last 15 years into an award-winning independent publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and cross genre work. "A marvellously exciting venture, bringing together the worlds of experimentalism and performance, always looking for new ways to present the spoken and written word in a time of artistic flux. The mainstream will, in the future, be redefined and enriched by companies like Penned in the Margins." Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster
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- Publisher Penned in the Margins
- Publication Date May 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781908058744
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 12.99 GBP
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
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