
Fast, funny, full of snappy dialogue . . . Gabriel Roth is a find.


“There comes a time when you realise that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.”


This is heady, page-turning stuff - the intelligent beach read of the summer, and not a shade of grey in sight.


My name is Qais Akbar Omar. I am an Afghan, a Muslim, a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, a carpet maker, a journalist, a boxer who has enjoyed breaking many noses, and “Qais, the Cruel Kite Cutter.” I just turned 30 years old, and am the author of A Fort of Nine Towers.
