This breakout novel from a gifted Arab/ British writer is by turns hilarious and unbearably poignant. It is the bitter-sweet story of a father and son on the road to discovering their place in the cultural and genetic soup of modern Europe.
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The breakout novel from a brilliant British-Sudanese novelist writing cleverly, wittily and movingly about being an outsider inside Europe. (20031017)
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By turns hilarious and unbearably poignant, "Travelling with Djinns" is the bitter-sweet story of a father and son on the road to discovering their place in the cultural and genetic soup of modern Europe. Yasin is driving through Europe in a dilapidated Peugeot 504 with his seven-year-old son, Leo. He's not sure where they're going. He just knows he's thirty-seven years old, his wife is about to divorce him and this is his last chance to explain to his son who he is and where he comes from. The problem is that Yasin isn't sure of the answer to these questions himself. Born in the Sudan to an English mother and an Arab father, he has two passports but no national identity. When he met his English wife, Ellen, he thought that love could transcend borders. Now, he is coming to see that, wherever you travel, you take your past with you. As he and Leo drift through Germany to Paris in search of Europe's history, and onwards through Provence to Spain to find Yasin's ex-lover and lost brother, Yasin reflects on the tragic-comic ironies of his displaced life and the kind of mixed-up world his son will inhabit.When they finally wash up on the Costa Brava, he and Leo are on the verge of separation but the brink of understanding.
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My Heart is Bleeding
15. März 2005
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I randomly happened upon this book at a bookstore in Lahore, Pakistan - never having heard of Jamal Mahjoub nor read anything by him previously.
This book was truly unlike any I have ever read before. This is the first time I have ever bothered to review a book, and I had to come all the way to the Canadian Amazon site to do it (this book is not yet featured on the U.S. site.)
I think that the author managed, in Travelling with Djinns, to capture something which has never been previously captured. He struck upon so many unanticipated chords that I was left stunned. He managed to articulate feelings and reflections that I had thought were still only uniquely forming themselves in my own mind.
You know that a book has had an effect on you when, upon reaching it's end, you ask yourself "Where do I go from here?"
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