Sleeper Ibtisam Abdallah farcical digressions and surrealist timekeeping

farcical digressions and surrealist timekeeping

Read the evidence and hear the voices of the oppressed in resistance and defeat

Pinky Agarwalia discovers fragments of this beguiling text: a mystic toolkit including a cosmology

full of rhythm and urgency

” — Mahmoud Darwish

Sleeper Ibtisam Abdallah farcical digressions and surrealist timekeepingSleepers hide in plain sight. Spies, double agents, lovers, mothers, writers. They wear smiling masks, turn up the collars of their raincoats, write in invisible ink, wear many disguises, and consort with the enemy. Some of them sleep for years, like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be summoned. Some forget what they are hiding from, or where their real allegiances lie. Sleeper examines loyalty and dishonesty, class and power, the spies who were caught