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Tenderness and brutality collide in the abject world of Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s Bugger

  • Written by Michelle Hamadache, Director of Creative Writing, Macquarie University
Tenderness and brutality collide in the abject world of Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s BuggerAmirhossein Hasani/Unsplash

Only an abject universe could contain the story of Bugger, Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s fourth book. With the stench of shit and damp clothes that smell of popcorn and vomit, with descriptions of bulging eyes and “sob-mucus” and sandwiches chewed with an open mouth, Ahmad builds a world able to hold...

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