Language: English
Published by Canongate International, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841953377 ISBN 13: 9781841953373
Seller: Caryota Book Exchange, Darwin, NT, Australia
Soft cover. Condition: Good.
Language: English
Published by Canongate International, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841953377 ISBN 13: 9781841953373
Paperback. Condition: As New. Softcover. Cover differs from photo. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Benares takes place over one evening, an evening in which the narrator joins his friend Mayi on a trip to Port-Louis. Their mission? To pick up two prostitutes with the money Mayi won playing poker the night before. This journey from, and then back to, Benares, the small Mauritian village in which they live, becomes symbolic of everything in the lives of these two young men. Very little happens and the travelling is done as much in the mind as it is on the road. In Babylon takes place in an Iraq alive to all the effects of Saddam's regime shortly after the first Gulf War.