Goat MountainIn Goat Mountain, Habib Selmis first novel, published in Arabic in 1988, a young mans journey begins in a dilapidated old bus that takes four hours to reach Al Ala, from where he takes a long ride on mule back, accompanied by a mysterious older man who is to play an important part in the young mans new life. They finally arrive at Goat Mountain, a forlorn, Tunisian desert village. The school is a single room. The youth passes the first night in the

after long periods of training

translated by John Peate

Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War

Ahmed Bouzfour A short story The Ostrich Hunter

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non-fiction and poetry to emerge from the revolutionary 'Centre for Writing' initiative

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‘My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis’ and ‘The Wounded Child’

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