Telepathy

Amīr Tāj al-Sirr

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.