Un viaje interminable | Abdullah Hussein | book new | sale

Abdullah Hussein

Barataria : Bárbaros | 2003

286 | 6h 50m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

20cm x 16cm | 445gr

Amir tells his story. When he arrives in Birmingham he shares a flat and illegal status with several compatriots. For them, life is nothing more than piecework and killing the few free moments at home. The collective desire to go completely unnoticed leads them to self-isolation and to experience situations of panic that even border on hilarity. Years later, he manages to reunite his family in the host country. Her daughter Parvin lives split between two ways of life: she enjoys within the walls of her house the smells, the food, the clothes of her land, but when she closes the door of her house she wants to blend in with the crowd and go unnoticed. On the contrary, his father, although he knows how to control the rules of the game of his host country, is convinced of the supremacy of his culture. When Amir discovers that Parvin has a white, English boyfriend, he tries to fix her wedding with a young Pakistani man. Faced with her resistance, Amir decides to lock her in a basement, believing her to be possessed by a jinn, an evil genius that he himself had to face when he was young.