Telepathy by Amir Tag Elsir

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"A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles in an uncanny and terrifying way a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate? Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum the show more bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken underbelly this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between imagination and reality." show less

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jekka 77 reviews

I really wanted to like this book, and I originally chose it because the author is outside of the Ameri-centric and Euro-centric voices that we tend to read more. But the author (Sudanese) wrote such a self-indulgent protagonist that it was difficult to enjoy. It probably wasn't the best translation either, but the story was interesting.

Jan 24, 2020

gaskella 687 reviews

Interesting psychological novel about a writer and the book he's written seeming all too real. Reviewed on my blog here: http://annabookbel.net/frederic-dard-bird-cage-amir-tag-elsir-telepathy

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