WHERE PIGEONS DON’T FLY
WHERE PIGEONS DON’T FLY
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Translated by Robin Moger
Contents
Part 1 A neck, a sword and leaden air
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Part 2 Sandals emerging from the darkness
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Part 3 Love, fear and darkness
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Part 4 The elephant's last dance
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Part 5 An old black bag
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Part 6 No one picks the lock
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Part 7 The jinn's deadly laugh
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Part 8 Dear Lorca, I stole no olives
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A Note on the Author
A Note on the Translator
It is the severest of torments to be granted a mind that protests in a society that does not
Abdullah al-Qaseemi