Son of Sin
by Omar Sakr
UK and Ireland ONLY, please visit Affirm Press for rest of world orders.
An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney.
This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love.
In this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
by Omar Sakr
UK and Ireland ONLY, please visit Affirm Press for rest of world orders.
An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney.
This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love.
In this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
by Omar Sakr
UK and Ireland ONLY, please visit Affirm Press for rest of world orders.
An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney.
This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love.
In this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.
ISBN: 9781068644634
270 pages
Date published: 16/11/2024
Paperback
For fans of Ocean Vuong, Hisham Mattar, Adania Shibli
An exhilarating read. A rare talent. -Anthony Anaxagorou
Omar Sakr’s literary voice is a marvel. He writes stunningly of family, faith and dislocation. -Hala Alyan
Omar’s intensely poetic narrative adds a new and powerful dimension to the Australian literary landscape. -Alexis Wright
Son of Sin is extraordinary. I loved this powerful, intoxicating narrative of the things that bind and break us. Omar Sakr wields language with a poet’s hunger for truth. -Hannah Kent
Omar Sakr is the acclaimed author of three poetry collections, including The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019) and Non-Essential Work (UQP, 2023). The Lost Arabs was shortlisted in five significant awards, and won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry; he was the first Arab-Australian poet to receive this major prize. Omar is a widely published essayist and editor whose work has been translated into Arabic and Spanish. Son of Sin is his debut novel.
