This Other Salt

by Aamer Hussein (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.28

  Betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging - these are the themes that resonate throughout This Other Salt. A writer torn between two loves looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a legend of biblical proportions; and a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta ...Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of This Other Salt reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  This collection of stories includes: The Blue Direction, where a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta and The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger, where a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a biblical legend.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $11.65

  Betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging - these are the themes that resonate throughout This Other Salt. A writer torn between two loves looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a legend of biblical proportions; and a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta ...Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of This Other Salt reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft.