Five Days Untold Five Days Untold:Paperback

Five Days Untold Five Days Untold:PaperbackLonglisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, Five Days Untold narrates the story of a young conscript forced to leave his village and family behind to fight in a bloody and senseless civil war that has raged on for years. Without proper training and his very survival dependent on the vagaries of fate, Ziad must face the unknown alone as he struggles to find his way back home. As atrocities and instability continue to roil the Middle East,

subversive and subtle possibilities of political satire in a closed society

motherhood and family histories

From grief to bliss

conducted by Camilo Gomez-Rivas

Spirited independent and intelligent

but I shall always carry some notes of your music

It’s the story of how a tattooed transgender rock singer killed a depressed suburban dad

subverting the readers’ expectations at every turn

Published to mark the centenary of his birth

Corina Rojas

often preoccupied by suffering and the borders of existence and non-existence

her poetry appears in several journals and ground-breaking anthologies