Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs Primrose Dzenga birds and beasts

birds and beasts

Laila al-Juhni: “Jeddah is Sinking” – an excerpt from The Waste Paradise

and Ali al-Kasimi

' The Guardian

Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs Primrose Dzenga birds and beastsAt a run down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly