Unknown Language Faruk Šehić

Unknown Language Faruk ŠehićIn the twelfth century since the appearance of the prophet Jesus Christ on the now evacuated planet Earth, Hildegard of Bingen discovers grace in the moral and spiritual ruins of her medieval world. She inscribes her visions into Scivias, an indescribably beautiful codex of writing and illuminations, thought to be lost during the collapse of the Information Age. On the planet Avaaz, in a sea cave with cracked amethyst walls, Pinky Agarwalia discovers

as it were

and can be enjoyed afresh in this second edition

for the observant comedy

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is trying to make sense of over 30 years of human rights violations

Holocaust (such as Norwegian or Japanese) and there are poems by or

poetic consciousness

For writers

A member of Aosdána (the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters)

unsparing but unjudging

a “black”

about its unprepared journey

Her collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award