Son of Sin Fleur Jaeggy and translated by Gini Alhadeff his fellow pupils’ cruelty and

his fellow pupils’ cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home

Zeinab Habash

as it came to be known

and Brother Man (1954)

grave humour and more besides – it rewards close attention

Son of Sin Fleur Jaeggy and translated by Gini Alhadeff his fellow pupils’ cruelty andAn estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and