Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the British-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published several critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Born in London and studied geology at the University of Sheffield (a wrong initial orientation, as he has said), he had lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo, Denmark, and Barcelona, before he settled in Amsterdam. He speaks six languages. His work translated into Greek for the first time.
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the British-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published several critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Born in London and studied geology at the University of Sheffield (a wrong initial orientation, as he has said), he had lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo, Denmark, and Barcelona, before he settled in Amsterdam. He speaks six languages. His work translated into Greek for the first time.
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In exile from his native Sudan, former police inspector Makana lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world.
