Sarajevo Firewood Ishion HutchinsonSarajevo Firewood, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) award in 2020, explores the legacy of the recent histories of two countries Algeria and Bosnia Herzegovina both of which experienced traumatic, and ultimately futile, civil wars in the 1990s. The novel narrates the lives of two main characters, with their friends and families: Salim, an Algerian journalist, and Ivana, a young Bosnian woman, both of whom have
and the things we need to dull the pain of being alive
and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves
and a glimpse of hope for all who feel eclipsed by those who came before them
in a strict sense
the first of its kind in English
nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life
The original intention with this issue had been to celebrate the World Service of the BBC to which MPT in its formative years
old wives’ tales and young people’s ambitions – the melancholy beauty and pain of an ordinary life
romantic fiction taken to its post-modern conclusion: ingenious
Dimitra Ioannou explores language as a response to hegemonic things
She won the Denis Devlin Memorial Award in 2002
You just do everything you can for them
