TEHRAN (IBNA) --
‘Telepathy’ (2015) an Arabic novel by noted Sudanese writer and medical doctor ‎Amir Taj al-Sir which is a psychological fiction with strands of satire has been published ‎in Persian under the title ‘Signed by Author’.‎
Iranian translator Mohammad Hazbaeizadeh has rendered this book into Persian. He has already translated two other novels by Amir Taj al-Sir, ‘French Perfume’ (2009) and ‘The Grub Hunter’ (2010). Tehran-based Sales Publishing has released ‘Telepathy’ in 137 pages.
In this novel, a Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny, terrifying way – a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate?
Set in both sides of Khartoum- the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken underbelly- this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between imagination and reality.
Taj al-Sir studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published a number of novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter (2010) was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. He lives and works as a medical doctor in Doha, Qatar.
His first novel ‘Karmakul’ came out in 1988. In 2015, he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel for his story of love and crime, entitled ‘366’. In addition, several of his other novels were shortlisted for the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Taj al-Sir has published more than 20 works of poetry, biography and novels, some of these translated into English or other languages. His novels deal with contemporary social issues, like poverty, the lives of refugees or diseases, such as Ebola.