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The Terrorist at my Table
Imtiaz Dharker
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Description for The Terrorist at my Table
Paperback. Asks questions about how we live - working, travelling, eating, listening to the news, preparing for attack. This title also deals with the question: when life is in the hands of a fellow-traveller, a neighbour, a lover, son or daughter, how does the world shift and reform itself around our doubt, our belief? Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. The terrorist at my table asks crucial questions about how we live now – working, travelling, eating, listening to ... Read more
An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. The terrorist at my table asks crucial questions about how we live now – working, travelling, eating, listening to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247355
SKU
V9781852247355
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary film-maker, and has published six books with Bloodaxe, Postcards from god (including Purdah) (1997), I Speak for the Devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006), Leaving Fingerprints (2009), Over the Moon ... Read more
Reviews for The Terrorist at my Table
‘Hers is a strong, concerned, economical poetry, in which political activity, homesickness, urban violence, religious anomalies, are raised in an unobtrusive domestic setting, all the more effectively for their coolness of treatment’ – Alan Ross, London Magazine ‘Here is no glib internationalism or modish multiculturalism …Displacement here no longer spells exile; it means an exhilarating sense of life at ... Read more