The Book of Naseeb
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Penned in the Margins
Published:18th May '20
Should be back in stock very soon
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
‘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
It took generations for readers to start appreciating Milton. Let’s hope it doesn’t take that long for Khaled Hakim.
Hakim’s contrived language does what Milton sought to do, after all, and what the translators of the King James Version also had in mind. It takes the small, the mundane, the petty, and sets it against a staggering backdrop. There is majesty and grandeur in the style, made moreso by the recognisability of the content.
- Joe Darlington, The Manchester Review of Books
* The Manchester Review of BooISBN: 9781908058744
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 524g
328 pages