The Lime Tree Sebastian Beaumont

The Lime Tree Sebastian BeaumontSeeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Csar Aira suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of his childhood, when his father would take him to gather the lime flower blossoms from which he made tea. Beginning with his father, handsome and black and working class, and his strikingly grotesque mother,

charting the trials and adventures of the Yun clan

As Doha Said by Bahaa Taher

Novel metaphors and lucid images whirl through tales that put life in perspective

His first poetry collection Glaciation (2009) won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008

is a frequently poignant feature of his work

who likes science and reads a lot of books

Professor of Caribbean Literature at Vassar College New York

"This is work which raises the question of what the political poem can be

the subjects of the poems within vary widely

it isn't crime fiction

or some other punisher

Saliou’s brother-in-law