An Eye for an Eye

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 181, [3 (blank)]. Turquoise cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine.

In this simple and passionate tale of revenge, Bandula Chandraratna returns to the desert kingdom he portrayed in Mirage, which The Times characterized as "a striking debut", and to the story of Sayeed and his lost love. Mirage emerged from the 1999 Booker judging panel as the surprising favourite of its chairman, Gerald Kaufman, just missing out the final shortlist. "[A]n alternative guidebook to Saudi, here represented as a sinister mix of the primitive and the ultra-sophisticated." –D. J. Taylor, Guardian