Telepathy
Subtitle: a novel
By: Amir Tag Elsir ; translated by William Maynard Hutchins
Contributors: Hutchins, William M., translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Doha
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9789927101892
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Ṭaqs
Description: A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles - in an uncanny, 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? Set in both sides of Khartoum - the 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.
Notes: Published in 2015 as Taqs.

Translated from the Arabic.