The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of Rainmakers Alawiya Sobh It was no surprise when

It was no surprise when I found she had homesteaded on Wrangell Island in Alaska for ten years

excerpts of novels

She has edited two anthologies of fiction for Iron Press: Iron Women: New Stories by Women (1990) and Biting Back: New Fiction from the North (2001)

with works by five young authors: an chapter from Yasser Abdel Latif’s The Law of Inheritance which won the inaugural Sawaris Prise in December 2005

All This and Many a Dog

The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of Rainmakers Alawiya Sobh It was no surprise whenIn 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought together in the current volume. In the absence of reliable history, and in the face of the stereotypes attached to these people (such as stoicism or a propensity for laughter), Harris makes no attempt to write conventional fictional reconstructions of an